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EF0 tornado in Winnebago County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Winnebago County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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 just north of the entrance to a forest preserve off Montague Road. The tornado initially moved southeast and then turned northeast moving along Montague Road. Damage to trees, power lines and crops occurred along the path of this tornado. A car was reported to have been pushed off Montague Road just south of Highlands Drive. The tornado ended just southeast of Highlands Drive.

The wider storm

A derecho moved across northern Illinois during the evening of July 15th producing widespread wind damage and 30 tornadoes in northeast Illinois. One of these tornadoes crossed into northwest Indiana. At the height of the storms, 430,000 customers lost power with some power not restored for four days, on July 19th.

Began near Westfield Corners (42.2170, -89.2027).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1193925. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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