EF0 tornado in De Kalb County, Illinois

Tornado July 14, 2024 · De Kalb County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

3.4 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 with estimated peak winds of 75 mph touched down in far eastern Ogle County southwest of Esmond and quickly crossed into De Kalb County. Tree and crop damage occurred along the path. Trees were uprooted just east of Esmond Road. One farm outbuilding was destroyed just east of McQueen Road and the tornado ended in a field just southeast of this location.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed during the evening of July 14th and continued into the early morning of July 15th, as they moved across all of northern and central Illinois. Nine tornadoes occurred, along with widespread wind damage. In the City of Chicago, there were 2,810 tree emergency calls and 1,430 calls for tree debris. Localized flash flooding also occurred, for a second night in a row in the Rockford area.

Began near Esmond (42.0280, -88.9420).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Kane County EF0 Kane County EF0 Cook County EF0 Cook County EFU Livingston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1190473. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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