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EF0 tornado in Washington County, Colorado

Tornado May 7, 2014 · Washington County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

5.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 touched down in an open country but did no damage.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms broke out across the Urban Corridor and Northeast Plains of Colorado. The storms produced four tornadoes in Washington, Weld and Phillips Counties. No damage was observed. Elsewhere, large hail, up to 1.5 inches in diameter, was reported along with wind gusts to 70 mph.

Began near Platner (40.1300, -103.0800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Washington County EF0 Phillips County EF0 Weld County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 513655. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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