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EF1 tornado in Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 11, 2026 · Kenosha County, Wisconsin

EF1
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$60K
Crop damage
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Brief tornado began on the south side of 18th Street west of 72nd Ave. Two barn outbuilding structures were heavily damaged with metal roofing lofted and deposited several hundred yards downwind. Several trees were damaged, uprooted or received large limbs damage. Tree limbs with damage toward the end of the track along 72nd Ave were blown and deposited across the street.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms tracked over parts of southeast and east-central Wisconsin during the evening hours on June 11, 2026. Storms organized into a linear complex along the Wisconsin-Illinois state line, producing several reports of thunderstorm wind damage from Walworth County east toward the Lake Michigan shoreline. Damage surveys would also confirm a brief tornado in the city of Kenosha. Additional severe storms formed over Sheboygan County, producing wind gusts to 60 MPH.

Began near Somers (42.6250, -87.9036).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1349923. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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