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EF0 tornado in Arapahoe County, Colorado

Tornado July 27, 2018 · Arapahoe County, Colorado

EF0
Rating
4.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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

A tornado touched down in open country. Some minor fence damage was observed.

The wider storm

Five tornadoes touched down, three of those produced damage on an EF-1 scale. South of Byers, a tornado took to roof off a manufactured home and partially destroyed an outbuilding. The tornado flipped a UPS truck end over end and injured the driver. The second tornado near Ponderosa Park uprooted several trees. The third tornado near Deer Trail tossed a cattle feeder approximately one-quarter of a mile, blew over some farm equipment and blew out the windows of a home. In addition to the tornadoes, severe thunderstorms produced hail up to golf ball size, heavy rain along with some minor

flooding. Multiple power lines were downed and Eads experienced a power outage.

Began near Deer Trail (39.7000, -103.8490).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Arapahoe CountyEF1 Elbert CountyEF1 Adams CountyEF0 Adams County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 762270. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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