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EF0 tornado in Elbert County, Colorado

Tornado June 8, 2019 · Elbert County, Colorado

EF0

Rating

0.0 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 weak tornado touched down briefly in open country, no damage was observed.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms erupted around metro Denver late in the afternoon and spread eastward across the plains. Very large hail ranging from quarter to tennis ball size was reported. The largest hail fell across Douglas and Elbert counties. The storms also produced one brief tornado and an outflow wind gust to 64 mph.

Began near Fondis (39.2000, -104.4600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 818516. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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