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EF0 tornado in La Salle County, Illinois

Tornado June 5, 2010 · La Salle County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
1.3 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 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

A NWS survey team found intermittent damage from the Putnam County line to just east of East 1st Road, about one half mile south of Illinois Route 18. The damage consisted primarily of tree and minor structural damage to farm buildings. See Stormdata for Illinois, Northwest for the beginning of this tornado.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms including a few long tracked supercells moved across central and northern Illinois, producing damaging winds, hail and tornadoes.

Began near Lostant (41.1129, -89.1623).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

10 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 La Salle CountyEF3 Kankakee CountyEF2 Livingston County 1 deadEF1 Kankakee CountyEF1 Kankakee CountyEF0 La Salle CountyEF0 Livingston CountyEF0 Livingston CountyEF0 La Salle CountyEF0 Livingston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 224973. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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