EF0 tornado — Polk County, Wisconsin

EF0 tornado in Polk County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 7, 2010 · Polk County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

2.8 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

Injury

$100K

Damage as recorded

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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 National Weather Service Storm Damage Survey determined that an EF-0 touched down two miles west of Bone Lake, to about one mile south of Bone Lake, Wisconsin. Damage was extensive to hundreds of large trees that included several two foot diameter Pine Trees. Structural damage included shingles blown off a home, car and home windows blown out, and a wooden trailer tossed into a tree.

The wider storm

Several short-lived supercell thunderstorms that moved across central Minnesota during the late evening of Saturday August 7th, moved into Polk and Barron County, Wisconsin prior to midnight and produced several rounds of severe down burst winds, and two tornadoes near Luck, and Cumberland, Wisconsin.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 243443. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Polk County, Wisconsin

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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