EF1 tornado in Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 15, 2022 · Outagamie County, Wisconsin

EF1

Rating

8.2 mi

Whole path

80 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 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

A tornado formed at 6:09 pm CDT near Leeman in north-central Outagamie County, continued northeast and entering Shawano County at 6:11 pm CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 8.2362 miles long, with a width of 80 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 94 mph.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front during the afternoon across western Wisconsin and tracked through northeast Wisconsin through the evening hours on Wednesday (6/15). The storms formed into a Quasi-Linear Convective System (QLCS) with multiple reports of damaging winds of 70 to 80 mph as well as 10 tornadoes embedded within the main line of thunderstorms. The 10 tornadoes ties a record for the most tornadoes in an event for northeast Wisconsin. Additional storms late in the evening produced a few reports of large hail near the lakeshore as they moved offshore.

The swath of damaging winds caused multiple power outages, with over 125,000 customers without power across northeast Wisconsin. Power was not restored for several days across many areas as the cleanup from the storms took an extended period of time.

Began near Leeman (44.5712, -88.5323).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

8 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Marinette County EF1 Waushara County EF1 Shawano County EF1 Waupaca County EF1 Marinette County EF1 Marinette County EF1 Marinette County EF0 Outagamie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1029569. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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