EF0 tornado in Kane County, Illinois

Tornado November 5, 2022 · Kane County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

3.7 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A tornado with peak winds of 80 mph touched down near Little Rock in Kendall County and moved north into Kane County. The tornado produced sporadic tree and power line damage along its path. Roof damage occurred to a barn near Jericho Road. The tornado moved across parts of northwest Big Rock and lifted just north of Route 30.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved across northern Illinois during the late morning and early afternoon of November 5th with convective showers which produced thunderstorm wind damage and one tornado. Wind damage from the convection was described as countywide across Ogle, Boone and McHenry Counties. DuPage Airport measured a peak wind gust to 77 mph. A handheld anemometer measured a wind gust to 80 mph near Roselle.

High winds caused tree damage both in the early morning of November 5th and then again in the afternoon of November 5th. A large portion of a roof was blown off an apartment building in Elk Grove Village. Some trees fell onto vehicles in Chicago. Peak wind gusts included 62 mph at DuPage Airport; 61 mph at Aurora Municipal Airport; 59 mph at Chicago Midway and Chicago Executive Airports and 58 mph at Waukegan Airport.

Began near Big Rock (41.7200, -88.5720).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1062698. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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