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EF0 tornado in Wood County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 14, 2010 · Wood County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 brief tornado was reported by the public and confirmed by local emergency management about five miles west of Pittsville. A dozen trees were knocked down and several large tree limbs fell onto a house (DI 1, DOD 5). Wind speed was estimated at 80 mph.

The wider storm

Numerous thunderstorms formed along a cold front that moved across the western Great Lakes. Storms that moved through northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin during the night July 13 intensified during the day on July 14 as they moved across northeast Wisconsin. The storms produced wind gusts as high as 95 mph, funnel clouds, a weak tornado, and very heavy rainfall. The thunderstorms left more than 22,000 homes without power for at least part of the event.

Began near Veedum (44.4110, -90.2180).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 247334. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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