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EF0 tornado in Marathon County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 17, 2024 · Marathon County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Whole path
46 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 46 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

A tornado developed on the Clark County (NWS La Crosse warning area) side of Colby at 8:59 am CDT, then tracked northeast and entering Marathon County at 9:00 am CDT. The tornado continued northeast through the south side of Colby and ended in an open field at 9:01 am CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 0.83 miles long, with a width of 46 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 70 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed along a semi-stationary front during the mid-morning and tracked northeast along the boundary through the late morning on Monday (6/17) across central and north-central Wisconsin. The strongest storms produced a brief tornado, damaging winds and small hail.

Began near Colby (44.9050, -90.3147).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1180359. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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