EF0 tornado — Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

EF0 tornado in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Tornado April 28, 2025 · Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

This tornado took part of the roof off of a barn. It also damaged a barn door and broke several trees. The maximum estimated wind speed was 80 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms had developed across a surface cold front that moved east across western Wisconsin during the evening hours of April 28th. Increased southerly moisture transport from a +50kt low-level jet reached as far north as central Wisconsin.

This line of storms also produced four tornadoes solely within Eau Claire County. An additional tornado developed in Buffalo County before crossing into Eau Claire County briefly before lifting. Maximum estimated wind speeds from the tornadoes varied from 80 to 95 mph. Damage included many uprooted and snapped trees, a pole barn being destroyed, damage to a farm outbuilding, and some roof/shingle damage to a few homes.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1240200. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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