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EF0 tornado in St. Croix County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 29, 2024 · St. Croix County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

1.7 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 knocked down or broke about two dozen trees. It was caught on video by a Wisconsin Department of Transportation camera located at Interstate 94 and Highway 128.

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 Woodville (44.9248, -92.2402).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1198807. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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