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EF0 tornado in Pierce County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 29, 2024 · Pierce County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

6.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado damaged a couple hundred trees along a sporadic path. It also hit a house, removing part of its roof with pole barn type construction, and one wall collapsed.

The wider storm

A well-defined cold front associated with a strong upper level low produced widespread wind damage in western Wisconsin, as well as three tornadoes in Pierce and St Croix Counties on August 29th, 2024.

Began near Beldenville (44.7859, -92.5742).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 St. Croix County EF0 Pierce County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1198806. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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