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EF2 tornado in Marinette County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 15, 2022 · Marinette County, Wisconsin

EF2
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
375 yd
Path width
$4.0M
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 375 yards (0.21 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 6:31 pm CDT near Silver Cliff in western Marinette County and tracked northeast before dissipating at 6:35 pm. Total path length is estimated to be 1.9007 miles long, with a width of 375 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 112 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 Athelstane (45.3910, -88.2852).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Waushara CountyEF1 Shawano CountyEF1 Waupaca CountyEF1 Outagamie CountyEF1 Marinette CountyEF1 Marinette CountyEF1 Marinette CountyEF0 Outagamie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1029580. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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