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F2 tornado in Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Tornado July 14, 2003 · Blue Earth County, Minnesota

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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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 F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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 second tornado from a cyclic tornadic supercell touched down on the western edge of a farmstead. It snapped a dozen trees and demolished a barn and sheds. The roof of a house was peeled away and four vehicles were moved.

Began near Lake Crystal (44.1167, -94.1500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Blue Earth County F1 Blue Earth County F1 Blue Earth County F1 Blue Earth County F0 Brown County F0 Brown County F0 Waseca County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5329754. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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