F0 tornado in Swift County, Minnesota

Tornado June 11, 2001 · Swift County, Minnesota

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

A large storm organized rapidly just northeast of Appleton in Swift County, and began producing several brief touchdowns in and around Danvers. The first known tornado, 2 SW Danvers, was a brief touchdown in an open field, destroying an irrigation system. The storm would produce a total of nine tornadoes, including the Benson to DeGraff F2 tornado.

Began near Danvers (45.2667, -95.8000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Swift County F1 Swift County F0 Swift County F0 Swift County F0 Swift County F0 Swift County F0 Kandiyohi County F0 Swift County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5254789. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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