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EF0 tornado in Du Page County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Du Page County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
3.1 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 tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph touched near Bryant Avenue and Wingate Road and moved northeast where it produced a corridor of concentrated tree damage between Spring Avenue and Woodstock Avenue, just south of Roslyn Road. Several large, healthy trees were either snapped or had limbs removed. Structural damage was limited to gouges in stucco on the northwest corner of a house on Cumnor Avenue. The tornado then crossed Interstate 355 and produced significant tree damage near Madison Street and Edson Street. A few houses suffered minor roof and fascia damage in this area. A house on Elizabeth Street had a portion of its roof damaged. The tornado continued moving northeast in the vicinity of Madison Elementary School where some trees were snapped. The tornado began to weaken with damage becoming more sparse and the tornado ended near South Broadway Street and Highland Avenue.

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 Flowerfield (41.8675, -88.0533).

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 1194210. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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