EF0 tornado in Arapahoe County, Colorado

Tornado July 27, 2018 · Arapahoe County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Adams County → Arapahoe 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

A weak tornado moved out of Adams County and into Arapahoe County. It remained in open country and caused no damage.

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 (39.7400, -103.9200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Arapahoe County EF1 Elbert County EF1 Adams County EF0 Arapahoe County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 798599. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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