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EF0 tornado in Beltrami County, Minnesota

Tornado July 26, 2021 · Beltrami County, Minnesota

EF0

Rating

12.6 mi

Whole path

200 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 200 yards (0.11 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

This tornado was likely wrapped in downburst winds, heavy rain, and large ail. The tornado crossed several County and Township roads as it tracked to the southeast, with numerous poplar and oak trees snapped along it's path. It appears to have crossed portions of Dark Lake, Whitefish Lake, and Sandy Lake in Nebish and Hagali Townships, before dissipating. near the western edge of Gull Lake, about 4 WNW of Tenstrike.

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 Nebish (47.7800, -94.8600).

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 975922. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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