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EF0 tornado in El Paso County, Colorado

Tornado June 4, 2015 · El Paso County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

7.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 large tornado moved across open country. It missed several ranches and only damaged a outbuilding along Alford Road.

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 (39.1213, -104.1150).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 El Paso County EF1 El Paso County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 574528. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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