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EF0 tornado in Yolo County, California

Tornado September 28, 2019 · Yolo County, California

EF0

Rating

1.7 mi

Path length

1 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 tornado was reported by a University of California Davis atmospheric science student. The student was reported to be east of highway 101a and highway 29 around 5:41 pm pst and filmed the tornado.

The wider storm

An unseasonably cold upper level low pressure system brought showers and thunderstorms to the Valley, which brought accumulating and damaging hail and a weak tornado to the Davis. High elevation snow was observed as well.

Began near Davis (38.5790, -121.7500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 860470. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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