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EF0 tornado in Kankakee County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Kankakee County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
12.3 mi
Path length
275 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 275 yards (0.16 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 down in a field west of County Road N 2250 W and north of County Road W 7000 N. The tornado caused tree damage on a farm just after it touched down. The tornado produced sporadic tree damage, crossing Route 45 where a utility pole was blown down. It then crossed Interstate 57 and produced extensive tree damage across southern Manteno. Several homes had minor roof and fascia damage and several fences were damaged. The tornado continued moving east with several modular homes sustaining skirt and siding damage in a subdivision just west of Sycamore Road. Roofing material was torn off of two distribution warehouse buildings near Boudreau Road. The tornado then continued east along County Road E 9000 N damaging trees, power lines and farm outbuildings. The tornado ended in a field just west of Tower Creek.

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 Deselm (41.2252, -87.9257).

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 1194340. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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