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EF0 tornado in Greene County, Illinois

Tornado August 19, 2009 · Greene County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

15.1 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$395K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Greene County → Scott County → Morgan County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 just north of Barrow near Illinois Route 106 and travelled to the northeast crossing County Line Road east of the railroad tracks into Scott County (WFO Lincoln's CWA). Damage was confined to trees and rated EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

The wider storm

An upper level system moved northeast through the region, triggering showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms produced large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes.

Began near Barrow (39.5114, -90.4169).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 188897. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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