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EF0 tornado in Aroostook County, Maine

Tornado May 26, 2014 · Aroostook County, Maine

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

180 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 180 yards (0.10 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

An EF0 tornado briefly touched down producing minor tree damage along a portion of Ludlow Road...with trees uprooted and split (DI 27, DI 28, DOD3). Maximum winds were estimated at around 75 mph. The tornado was produced from a mini-supercell thunderstorm.

The wider storm

A cold front crossed the region from the late morning through the afternoon hours of the 26th along with an upper level disturbance and cooling temperature aloft. Severe thunderstorms developed in advance of the front during the late morning and persisted through late afternoon. The severe thunderstorms produced large hail. A weak tornado was also reported near Ludlow in southeast Aroostook county.

Began near Ludlow (46.1480, -67.9920).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 522219. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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