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EF0 tornado in Oakland County, Michigan

Tornado November 10, 2024 · Oakland County, Michigan

EF0
Rating
1.2 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 began in a wooded marshland southwest of Holly and continued northeast into the Village of Holly before dissipating just east of the center of town near the intersection of Martha St. and Washington St. Sporadic concentrated small tree and large limb damage, loss of roofing material on several facilities, construction site damage, and minor siding and fascia loss were observed along the portions of Tenny st, Legrande St, Sherman St, Saginaw St, Church St, Martha St, And Washington St.

Peak winds were estimated to be 70 mph.

The wider storm

Above normal November temperatures in the mid 50s preceded a compact mid-level traversing southern lower MI over the latter half of the 10th. Cold cored system aided in deepening convective depths to generate a broken line of shallow thunderstorms and showers with several embedded circulations, one of which very briefly reached the ground on the south end of Holly.

Began near Holly Adelphian Arpt (42.7800, -83.6400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1221466. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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