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F0 tornado in Holt County, Nebraska

Tornado June 9, 2003 · Holt County, Nebraska

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$5K

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

The tornado snapped off mature trees and broke numerous large branches as it touched down in an open field. As the tornado then moved across a county road, it broke off several power poles. The tornado again damaged and uprooted trees in a small shelter belt as it moved east of the county road.

Began near Stuart (42.6833, -99.1833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Holt County F1 Custer County F0 Keya Paha County F0 Holt County F0 Holt County F0 Custer County F0 Custer County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5362978. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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