EF0 tornado in Cook County, Illinois

Tornado July 14, 2024 · Cook County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

15.4 mi

Whole path

250 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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 near 41st Street and Poplar Place in La Grange and moved northeast through Brookfield, Riverside and Berwyn before ending just northeast of the intersection of Cermak Road and Laramie Road. Damage along the tornado's path was entirely confined to trees.

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 Western Springs (41.8151, -87.8858).

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 Kane County EF0 Cook County EFU Livingston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1190857. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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