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EF0 tornado in Cook County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Cook County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
4.1 mi
Whole path
250 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Du Page 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 80 mph touched down just southwest of O'Hare Airport in DuPage County then continued moving east northeast across O'Hare Airport after crossing into Cook County. While the tornado was moving across the airport, windows, doors and exterior paneling and roofing of multiple terminals and gates were damaged. Carts and loose objects were also pushed around or thrown. The tornado continued moving east near Interstate 190 where at least one tree was blown down. The tornado ended just west of Interstate 294.

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 Bensenville (41.9680, -87.9204).

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 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 Cook CountyEF0 Cook CountyEF0 Cook CountyEF0 Kankakee CountyEF0 Will CountyEFU De Kalb County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1194265. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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