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EF0 tornado in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 19, 2025 · Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

60 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 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 touched down north of Branch at 4:21 PM CDT. The tornado tracked southeast and snapped and uprooted some trees and produced siding and roofing damage near the start of the tornado, tracking over farm fields with damage evident on satellite data before dissipating just northeast of Branch at 4:25 PM CDT. Total path length is estimated to be 1.58 miles long, with a width of 60 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 77 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms tracked through east-central Wisconsin during the afternoon hours on Saturday (7/19). The storms spun up a brief tornado in Manitowoc County as a thunderstorm interacted with the lake breeze boundary.

Began near Branch (44.1790, -87.7566).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267685. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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