EF1 tornado in Marathon County, Wisconsin

Tornado May 21, 2024 · Marathon County, Wisconsin

EF1

Rating

4.2 mi

Whole path

80 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 formed at 7:51 pm CDT northwest of Edgar in western Marathon County and continued northeast before dissipating at 7:54 pm CDT between the village of Athens and the town of Rib Falls. Total path length is estimated to be 2.13 miles long, with a width of 80 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 92 mph.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front during the early evening on Tuesday (5/21) and tracked through much of northeast Wisconsin through the rest of the evening. Straight line winds produced wind damage along with 5 tornadoes.

Began near Stratford (44.9548, -90.0486).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Door County EF1 Outagamie County EF1 Marathon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1175017. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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