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F1 tornado in Custer County, Nebraska

Tornado June 9, 2003 · Custer County, Nebraska

F1
Rating
4.0 mi
Path length
580 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
$10K
Crop damage
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 580 yards (0.33 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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 touched down in an open field and then moved east through a corn field overturning a pivot irrigation system and snapping off hundreds of large tree limbs in the adjacent shelter belt. The tornado also destroyed a barn and grain bins at a nearby farm. The tornado then crossed the county road just 2 miles north of Comstock and destroyed another barn, overturned another pivot irrigation system, and broke off several power poles. As the tornado continued to move east, it broke off and uprooted numerous trees. Baseball size hail associated with the storm broke many windows in homes near the path of the tornado and also in the town of Comstock.

Began near Comstock (41.5667, -99.2833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Holt CountyF0 Keya Paha CountyF0 Holt CountyF0 Holt CountyF0 Holt CountyF0 Custer CountyF0 Custer County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5363037. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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