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EF2 tornado in Logan County, Colorado

Tornado September 11, 2019 · Logan County, Colorado

EF2

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

440 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 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

A tornado touched down and snapped six power poles.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced two tornadoes, along with damaging hail and straight-line winds. Both tornadoes were assigned an EF2 rating. One tornado snapped several power poles, while the other demolished a well constructed pole shed. Very large hail, up to 3.25 inches in diameter in Logan County, damaged vehicles, homes, trees and crops. The storms impacted parts of eastern Boulder, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick and Weld counties.

Began near Powell (40.7300, -103.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Logan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 845063. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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