EF1 tornado in Menominee (c) County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 25, 2024 · Menominee (c) County, Wisconsin

EF1

Rating

9.0 mi

Whole path

83 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Menominee (c) County → Oconto County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 83 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 developed near Highway 55 northwest of Keshena at 2:25 AM CDT, then tracked east-southeast crossing the Legend Lake area and entering Oconto County at 2:33 AM CDT. The tornado downed multiple power lines, snapped and uprooted trees, and flipped several campers at a campground along the path. Total path length is estimated to be 8.96 miles long, with a width of 83 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 98 mph.

The wider storm

Isolated thunderstorms developed ahead of a warm front during the late evening on Monday (6/24) producing large hail. A Quasi-Linear Convective System developed across northwest Wisconsin and tracked southeast through northeastern Wisconsin during the overnight hours into early Tuesday morning (6/25). The storms produced widespread straight-line wind damage, an isolated tornado, and some flash flooding across the region.

Began near Keshena (44.9090, -88.6539).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1180400. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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