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F0 tornado in Furnas County, Nebraska

Tornado June 13, 2001 · Furnas County, Nebraska

F0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$8K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

Brief tornado in Furnas county.

The wider storm

A wild night of weather struck south-central Nebraska with high winds, hail and tornadoes. Of the five tornadoes confirmed, the most damaging one occurred southeast of Hubbell. One farmstead sustained around one-half million dollars in damage, including losing several outbuildings, grain bins, and an exterior wall on the home. The other tornadoes were quite brief, but one did manage to produce minor damage on a farm in eastern Furnas county.Another area of widespread destruction occurred with straight-line winds in extreme southern Clay and northern Nuckolls counties. Winds estimated at 90 mph tore through grain bins, outbuildings, and trees. Major damage was had at a turkey farm near Lawrence. The damage extended east along State Highway 4 across northern Nuckolls county to the tune of over one million dollars. There were dozens of other reports of large hail across south-central Nebraska, which caused significant crop damage in some locations.

Began near Edison (40.3167, -99.7333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5262604. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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