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EF0 tornado in Kendall County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Kendall County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
36.5 mi
Whole path
300 yd
Path width
2
Injuries

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 80 mph touched down in a field south of Caton Farm Road and west of Arbeiter Road. The tornado moved east northeast through the Greywell Club subdivision where it caused damage to trees and fences as well as minor roof damage. The tornado crossed Ridge Road where it snapped a tall tree trunk in the middle and then damaged the roof of the Plainfield South High School. The tornado crossed Caton Farm Road and moved east northeast crossing into Will County just south of Desert 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 Joliet (41.5586, -88.3015).

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 1194145. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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