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EF0 tornado in Jefferson County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 22, 2024 · Jefferson County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
4.5 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width
$3.0M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 rated tornado developed south of Marshall near Highway 73, proceeding northwestward, damaging several farms and large areas of trees, before dissipating on the south side of Waterloo. This portion of the path was toward the end of the tornado and didn't do too much additional damage in Jefferson county besides a few trees being uprooted.

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 Waterloo (43.1634, -89.0100).

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 1179305. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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