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EF0 tornado in Crawford County, Wisconsin

Tornado September 22, 2025 · Crawford County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 EF-0 tornado began in a corn field northwest of Mount Sterling with drone footage capturing the swirling corn pattern. The tornado continued southeast damaging a farm outbuilding and a few buildings in town before dissipating.

The wider storm

During the afternoon and evening hours on September 22nd, individual storm cells developed along a frontal boundary and pushed south through western Wisconsin. As these storms moved south, they produced sporadic instances of large hail and wind damage as well as one EF-0 tornado in Mount Sterling. Additional storms in the morning produced an isolated pocket of tree and powerline damage in eastern Vernon County.

Began near Mt Sterling (43.3220, -90.9340).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1289021. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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