EF0 tornado — Cass County, Minnesota

EF0 tornado in Cass County, Minnesota

Tornado June 19, 2016 · Cass County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

2.3 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

There was a brief touchdown with no reported damage.

The wider storm

Tornadic thunderstorms formed in a very unstable airmass ahead of a cold front that moved through the area during the evening. Storms developed around 5 pm, and moved rapidly east, affecting much of northeast Minnesota and parts of northwest Wisconsin. Tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds occurred across parts of the area.

Damage surveys conducted by National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed 4 tornadoes over northeast Minnesota that evening. The strength of the tornadoes ranged from EF0 to EF2.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 642736. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Cass County, Minnesota

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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