EF2 tornado — Frontier County, Nebraska

EF2 tornado in Frontier County, Nebraska

Tornado May 17, 2019 · Frontier County, Nebraska

EF2

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

178 yd

Path width

$12K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 178 yards (0.10 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

Tornado rolled numerous hay bales across a road and into ditches. Twelve power poles were also snapped.

The wider storm

A strong upper level trough of low pressure lifted across the central Rockies during the late afternoon of May 17th. As this feature approached a stalled out frontal boundary, which was anchored along the Kansas and Nebraska border, thunderstorms developed and quickly became severe as they lifted north. A lone supercell produced multiple tornadoes while moving northeast through Frontier County. Two farms sustained damage with the Johnson's farm sustaining damage to every building with the tornado rated an EF-3. As storms moved northeast large hail and damaging winds were reported.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 822266. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF2 tornado in Frontier County, Nebraska

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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