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EF0 tornado in Hillsdale County, Michigan

Tornado September 24, 2024 · Hillsdale County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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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

Minor damage occurred to 2 barns on Austin Road, between S Edon Rd and Gilmore Road. The circulation was only briefly on the ground with estimated wind speeds of around 65 mph.

The wider storm

Small, cyclic tornadoes moved through the warm sector of a low pressure system tracking from central IL to Kalamazoo. Widespread stratiform rain in the morning gave way to decreasing clouds which permitted scattered showers to develop. Three tornadoes occurred in Indiana. One tornado occurred in Michigan.

Began near Austin (41.7376, -84.7356).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1208315. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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