The National Weather Service office in Cheyenne has officially listed last Tuesday’s tornado that touched down in Dawes County about 19 miles southwest of Chadron as an EF-1 on the enhanced Fujita scale, with maximum winds of 110 mph.

A NWS storm survey team conducted a damage assessment last Thursday and determine the twister covered about a mile on the ground…skipping up several times…with a maximum width of around 40 yards.

The survey team says the tornado touched down at 8:31 p.m., initially snapping trees and telephone poles before damaging several structures along its path to the east.

16 or more structures were damaged with at least 8 outbuildings destroyed and two horse trailers thrown several hundred feet. There were no injuries or fatalities.

More pictures and specifics about the Dawes County tornado and the NWS report can be found on the agency’s Web page, www.noaa.gov/cys.