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EF1 tornado in Beltrami County, Minnesota

Tornado July 26, 2021 · Beltrami County, Minnesota

EF1

Rating

12.6 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$600K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Beltrami County → Beltrami County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

This tornado formed near the shore of Lower Red Lake and tracked to the southeast. It crossed MN HWY 1 near the intersection with BIA15 and penetrated deeply into a large evergreen and oak forest. Trees were snapped and debris was tangled, though most debris tracked with the southeast moving storm. The tornado appeared to have dissipated around 522 PM CDT, after crossing BIA18, roughly 6 miles ESE of Redby.

The wider storm

Isolated severe thunderstorms formed during the afternoon, producing heavy impacts as the result of large hail, damaging wind gusts, and several tornadoes.

Began near Redby (47.8900, -94.8700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Beltrami County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 975921. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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