EF0 tornado in Stanislaus County, California

Tornado April 27, 2016 · Stanislaus County, California

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

5 yd

Path width

$500

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

An EF0 tornado with swirling debris was observed near Hickman elementary school by a Sheriff's deputy and several members of the public. A large eucalyptus tree was uprooted, a shed was moved off its foundation and pushed into a fence, and a green house was damaged.

The wider storm

A weather system resulted in thunderstorms developing across the Southern Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin valley and adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The storms resulted in half inch hail deep enough to cause slick road conditions, and slight damage to a carport. Lightning struck a tree, causing a portion of it to split off. An EF0 tornado was also observed that uprooted a eucalyptus tree and moved a shed off it's foundation.

Began near Waterford (37.6233, -120.7560).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 633013. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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