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EF2 tornado in Lafayette County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 22, 2024 · Lafayette County, Wisconsin

EF2
Rating
6.9 mi
Whole path
500 yd
Path width
$1.0M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

Strong tornado developed west of Argyle and tracked to the north of it, hitting multiple barns and a church along it's path.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed across western Wisconsin and moved eastward across southern Wisconsin through the afternoon and evening hours on June 22nd due to passing low pressure and its approaching cold front. There were supercell thunderstorms along with bowing segments along this line which lead to multiple areas of damage. Two strong tornadoes occurred, which were rated EF-2 near Argyle and through the south side of Janesville. Many reports of flash flooding were received due to torrential rainfall and slow storm movement or the training of thunderstorms. One of the other issues for this event was that it occurred on a Saturday evening where numerous large events were occurring which ended up cancelling or postponing to a later date.

Began near Lamont (42.6969, -89.9625).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1179293. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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