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EF0 tornado in Marquette County, Wisconsin

Tornado May 21, 2024 · Marquette County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
5.3 mi
Path length
60 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 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

Intermittent damage path with numerous branches downed along with upwards of 40 trees snapped, topped or uprooted. One house sustained substantial roof damage from a fallen tree. Minor garage damage was all noted from falling tree debris.

The wider storm

Lines and clusters of severe thunderstorms moved across southern WI from the late morning through the late evening as the passage of a warm front was quickly followed by a cold front. Straight-line winds accounted for fairly widespread tree limb damage especially over south central WI. Several reports of large hail were received while street flooding was reported in Madison. A couple brief EF1 tornadoes also occurred.

Began near Budsin (43.8837, -89.3113).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Dane CountyEF1 Marquette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170039. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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