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EF0 tornado in Aroostook County, Maine

Tornado July 18, 2016 · Aroostook County, Maine

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 supercell thunderstorm produced a brief EF-0 tornado. The short lived EF-0 tornado...with estimated maximum winds around 80 mph...touched down on the north side of Tangle Ridge Road then travelled around a 100 yards into the woods. The tornado uprooted and snapped numerous trees along its short path (DI28, DOD3). The tornado could have briefly touched down again further to the east-northeast along the path of the storm. However...forestation and lack of roads in the area limited the damage survey.

The wider storm

A pre-frontal surface trof moved across the region during the early to mid afternoon hours of the 18th...with a strong cold front following during the late afternoon and evening. Severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and persisted into the evening producing damaging winds and large hail. A weak tornado also briefly occurred several miles north of Caribou.

Began near Hanford (46.9169, -68.2343).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 651758. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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