EF0 tornado in Charles Mix County, South Dakota

Tornado May 10, 2015 · Charles Mix County, South Dakota

EF0

Rating

16.2 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Charles Mix County → Douglas 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 tornado formed and moved over fields, damaging some trees, before crossing into Douglas County.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms over southeast South Dakota from late morning to the start of the evening on May 10th produced several tornadoes, including one that caused injuries and severe damage in Delmont in Douglas County. The thunderstorms also produced large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding in locations extending to the eastern border of the state.

Began near Wagner (43.0923, -98.2234).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Hutchinson County EF0 Miner County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 576974. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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