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EF1 tornado in El Paso County, Colorado

Tornado June 4, 2015 · El Paso County, Colorado

EF1

Rating

2.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Elbert County → El Paso County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado moved from Elbert County into El Paso County and damaged some trees and road signs. The damage to the trees was consistent with EF1 winds.

The wider storm

A severe storm produced severe hail, damaging winds, and three tornados in northeast El Paso County, and other severe storms brought hail up to the size of tennis balls in western El Paso County.

Began near Ramah (39.1287, -104.1280).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 574527. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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