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EF0 tornado in Livingston County, Michigan

Tornado July 26, 2023 · Livingston County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

2.4 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 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

A weak tornado with maximum winds of 70 mph tracked east-northeast from northeast Jackson County and briefly crossed into Livingston County before dissipating just northeast of Leeke Road and north of Bowdish Road. One business along the path sustained some minor structural damage that included roof damage and siding damage to an outbuilding.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of a frontal boundary and moved across Lake Michigan during the morning hours of July 26, 2023. These thunderstorms would eventually track across the state into a very warm and unstable environment. The southern end of the line of storms is where the strongest winds associated with the line would develop and moved across the lower portions of southeast Michigan during the afternoon between 2 PM and 5 PM. A swath of widespread 60-70 mph wind gusts with locally higher gusts resulted in numerous downed trees, downed powerlines, and around 165,000 power outages in southeast Michigan. The Ann Arbor and the Detroit/Grosse Pointe areas were hit the hardest.

Began near Williamsville (42.4246, -84.1361).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1144388. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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