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EF0 tornado in Florence County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 27, 2023 · Florence County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

1.7 mi

Path length

90 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 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 brief tornado formed at 7:22 pm CDT in the Hiles area in Forest County and continued southeast before dissipating at 7:26 pm CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 1.68 miles long, with a width of 90 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 76 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front tracking through western Wisconsin during the late afternoon hours on Thursday (7/27). The thunderstorms tracked through central and north-central Wisconsin during the early evening hours. The strongest storms produced damaging winds, hail up to half dollar size and a tornado.

Began near Long Lake (45.7084, -89.0020).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1112180. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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