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EF0 tornado in Fillmore County, Minnesota

Tornado May 27, 2019 · Fillmore County, Minnesota

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 brief tornado touched down in rural southwest Fillmore County south of Ostrander. The tornado flipped a farm shed over a tree line.

The wider storm

As an area of low pressure moved across the Upper Midwest, thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of Memorial Day (May 27th) across portions of southeast Minnesota. These storms quickly became severe and produced four tornadoes across Fillmore County. The first tornado moved into the southern part of the county from Iowa and damaged some farm buildings and trees along its path as it moved toward Greenleafton. The other three tornadoes were just brief touchdowns over the western portions of the county south and east of Spring Valley.

Began near Etna (43.5482, -92.3902).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Howard CountyEF0 Fillmore CountyEF0 Fillmore County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 827279. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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