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EF0 tornado in La Salle County, Illinois

Tornado June 5, 2010 · La Salle County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 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 briefly occurred just west of Ottawa and just north of Starved Rock State Park. A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service found some minor damage in the area with a couple large trees downed along with several other branches of varying sizes downed.

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 Twin Bluffs (41.3269, -88.9365).

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 La Salle CountyEF0 Livingston CountyEF0 Livingston CountyEF0 Livingston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 226118. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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