EF0 tornado in Pierce County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 29, 2024 · Pierce County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

7.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Dakota County, Minnesota → Goodhue County, Minnesota → Pierce County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

A tornado developed at the southern edge of Bellwood Oaks Golf Course, in Dakota County. It moved northeast and tracked across a sliver of northern Goodhue County before crossing the Mississippi River into Wisconsin, about 5 miles southeast of Prescott. Several dozen trees were broken or uprooted and a trailer was flipped.

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 Prescott (44.7091, -92.7247).

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 1200978. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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