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EF0 tornado in Dakota County, Nebraska

Tornado October 4, 2013 · Dakota County, Nebraska

EF0

Rating

12.4 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

$450K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Dakota County → Union County, South Dakota → Union County, South Dakota → Plymouth County, Iowa; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado developed in northern Dakota County and caused no reported damage before crossing the Missouri River into Union County of South Dakota.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms produced three tornadoes which tracked over Dixon and Dakota Counties in extreme northeast Nebraska on the late afternoon of October 4th. One damaging tornado crossed into Dixon County from Wayne County Nebraska, a brief tornado formed and dissipated in Dixon County, and another tornado developed in northern Dakota County before crossing the Missouri River into Union County South Dakota.

Began near Willis (42.4918, -96.5900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF4 Dixon County EF0 Dixon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 475785. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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