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EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Michigan

Tornado June 27, 2010 · Wayne County, Michigan

EF1

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A tornado touched down just southeast of Clark and Willow roads.

EF1 damage with winds estimated up to 105 mph were noted along Waltz road and just to the east. Damage included multiple homes with roof damage and two destroyed garages. The tornado ended just east of Rust rd.

The total path length was 1.4 miles from southwest to northeast.

The tornado was 200 yards wide where the EF1 damage occurred.

The wider storm

A warm front lifting north through southeast Michigan spawned three tornadoes. Outside of the tornadoes, just a few isolated reports of thunderstorm wind damage.

Began near Willow (42.1155, -83.4135).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 St. Clair County 1 dead EF0 Sanilac County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 227594. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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