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EF1 tornado in Livingston County, Illinois

Tornado June 7, 2008 · Livingston County, Illinois

EF1

Rating

3.6 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 touched down near 2000E and 2900N. Utility poles were snapped along 2900N. On 2100E north of 3000N, half of the roof of a barn was blown off. At 3100N, a house suffered roof and tree damage. The tornado ended near 2200E, just south of 3200N.

The wider storm

A single supercell thunderstorm developed over western Illinois and moved northeast reaching Lake Michigan near the Illinois Indiana state line several hours later. This single thunderstorm produced eight different tornadoes as it moved east across Illinois.

Began near Nevada (41.0495, -88.5465).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Kankakee County EF2 Will County EF2 Will County EF1 Cook County EF0 Livingston County EF0 Cook County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 105497. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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