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EF0 tornado in Windham County, Connecticut

Tornado September 13, 2023 · Windham County, Connecticut

EF0
Rating
1.6 mi
Path length
70 yd
Path width
$6K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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

An EF-1 with maximum winds of 100 mph began on Bailey Hill Road

in the town of Killingly, CT between Cranberry Road and Ledge

Road, here the tornado removed shingles from a two story home and

either snapped or uprooted healthy and mature trees. The tornado

moved northeast towards Ledge Road causing similar tree damage

before dissipating on Shippie Schoolhouse Road in the town of

Foster, RI. Tree damage along the path was consistent with wind

speeds between 90 and 100 mph, resulting an EF-1 rating on the

Enhanced Fujita Scale.

The wider storm

A frontal system brought a period of heavy rain, flash flooding, and embedded thunderstorms to southern New England from the morning to mid evening. In addition to much tree damage from straight line winds, there was one tornado in Connecticut, 2 in Rhode Island, and 1 in Massachusetts. These all occurred in the afternoon.

Began near South Killingly (41.8109, -71.8178).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1121824. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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