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EF0 tornado in Kane County, Illinois

Tornado July 14, 2024 · Kane County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 brief tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down just northwest of Route 38, about halfway between Peck Road and Randall Road. The tornado moved southeast causing roof damage to a self storage building, damaging a greenhouse and tossing shopping cart corrals around at a grocery store. A light pole was knocked over and several trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado ended just northeast of the intersection of Randall Road and Bricher Road.

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 Geneva (41.9041, -88.3519).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1190542. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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