EF0 tornado — Ramsey County, North Dakota

EF0 tornado in Ramsey County, North Dakota

Tornado June 9, 2017 · Ramsey County, North Dakota

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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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

A brief touchdown was noted by an observer near Vining Oil, looking to the north.

The wider storm

During the day of June 9th, temperatures over eastern North Dakota and the northwest quarter of Minnesota topped out in the upper 70s along the Canadian border to lower 90s along the North Dakota/South Dakota border. Mid level temperatures were very warm over the central Dakotas, helping to suppress convective development until early evening. By that point, thunderstorms broke out over southern Manitoba down through central North Dakota, mainly along a cold front. These storms tracked east-southeast, mainly covering the Devils Lake region, down through the central Red River Valley, and into the Mahnomen to Hubbard county corridor. A mix of tornadoes, hail, and strong winds were reported.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 696869. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Ramsey County, North Dakota

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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