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EF1 tornado in Will County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Will County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
19.2 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 100 mph which touched down in Kendall County crossed into Will County just west of the intersection of Route 30 and Eola Road. The tornado moved east northeast producing tree damage along its path. Several small trees were snapped between 95th Street and 103rd Street. The tornado crossed Route 14 and numerous tree limbs were blown down just north of Knoch Knolls Road. The tornado crossed Washington Street and continued producing tree damage until it ended near Kelm Road just south of Walnut Ridge Park.

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 Tamarack (41.6890, -88.2610).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Grundy CountyEF1 Kane CountyEF1 Kendall CountyEF1 Cook CountyEF1 Cook CountyEF1 Cook CountyEF1 Cook CountyEF1 Kankakee CountyEF1 Will CountyEF0 Livingston CountyEF0 Winnebago CountyEF0 Ogle CountyEF0 Ogle CountyEF0 Ogle CountyEF0 Kane CountyEF0 Will CountyEF0 Du Page CountyEF0 Du Page CountyEF0 Du Page CountyEF0 Cook CountyEF0 Cook CountyEF0 Cook CountyEF0 Kankakee CountyEF0 Will CountyEFU De Kalb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1193935. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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