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EF0 tornado in Crawford County, Michigan

Tornado June 5, 2024 · Crawford County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

90 yd

Path width

$21K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 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 briefly touched down on the Forest Dunes Golf Club grounds. Golfers on the course observed trees being blown down, but no injuries were reported. Among other numerous downed trees with this event, a couple trees fell on a house located on the club grounds.

The wider storm

A trough crossing the region amid sufficient low-level instability and shear led to a few low-topped supercell showers over northern Michigan. One of these low-topped cells produced a brief EF-0 tornado on the ground of Forest Dunes Golf Club in southern Crawford County. This tornado was on the ground for 0.3 miles/1 minute. A number of trees were damaged, with trees also falling on a home in the area.

Began near Grayling (44.5860, -84.5225).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1188515. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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