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F1 tornado in Custer County, Nebraska

Tornado October 31, 2000 · Custer County, Nebraska

F1
Rating
12.0 mi
Whole path
250 yd
Path width
$750K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Custer County → Loup County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado touched down 2 miles west of Sargent with damage to a farm building and center pivot irrigation system. The tornado moved north northeast with several power poles broken off and minor damage produced at a farm 2 miles northwest of Sargent. The tornado then moved across open country until destroying a communication tower and several power poles 5 miles north of Sargent. A farm building was then damaged 6 miles north of Sargent before the tornado moved into southeast Loup county.

Began near Sargent (41.6333, -99.4000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Custer CountyF2 Custer CountyF1 Frontier CountyF1 Hayes County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5158465. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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