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EF0 tornado in Livingston County, Illinois

Tornado June 5, 2010 · Livingston County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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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 very brief and weak tornado occurred 6 miles northeast of Fairbury in southern Livingston County. There was damage to a barn and corn crop. Vents on this barn were torn off with the corn crop flattened and twisted throughout the field. The tornado was rated EF0 with winds estimated at around 70 mph.

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 Wing (40.8176, -88.4182).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 La Salle County EF3 Kankakee County EF2 Livingston County 1 dead EF1 Kankakee County EF1 Kankakee County EF0 La Salle County EF0 La Salle County EF0 Livingston County EF0 Livingston County EF0 La Salle County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 226125. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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