F0 tornado in Waseca County, Minnesota

Tornado July 14, 2003 · Waseca County, Minnesota

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 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

Captured on video by law enforcement, this was the seventh and last in a series of tornadoes produced by a cyclic tornadic supercell. It touched down briefly in an open field and dissipated before reaching the city of Janesville.

Began near Janesville (44.1167, -93.7333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5329759. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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