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EF0 tornado in De Witt County, Illinois

Tornado June 5, 2010 · De Witt County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
11.8 mi
Whole path
300 yd
Path width
$170K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Logan County → De Witt County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 crossed into DeWitt County from Logan County 3.2 miles west-southwest of Kenney. A barn was blown down and two machine sheds were damaged. In addition, a trailer was rolled over. The tornado lifted 3.5 miles southeast of Kenney.

The wider storm

A stationary frontal boundary extending from southern Michigan across north-central Illinois served as the focus for severe thunderstorm development during the late afternoon and evening of June 5th. A vigorous upper-level disturbance tracking across the Upper Midwest added extra wind energy to the atmosphere, allowing supercell thunderstorms to develop along the front. Eight tornadoes were spawned by the storms, mainly along a Galesburg to Eureka line. An isolated tornado formed further south across eastern Logan and western DeWitt counties as well. No injuries were reported.

Began near Kenney (40.0858, -89.1453).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 243610. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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