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EF0 tornado in Prowers County, Colorado

Tornado July 14, 2014 · Prowers County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 brief landspout tornado occurred across open country and caused no damage.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced hail up to the size of ping pong balls and flash flooding in El Paso County. Large hail occurred in Lamar, and a brief tornado occurred northeast of Lamar in Prowers County.

Began near Lamar (38.2166, -102.4973).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 521417. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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