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EF0 tornado in Dickinson County, Michigan

Tornado July 27, 2010 · Dickinson County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$10K

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

The tornado touched down along 7th Avenue in the eastern sections of Norway and then crossed US-2 as it moved east northeastward towards Norway Mountain. The maximum wind speeds were estimated at 70 mph which made it a EF0 tornado. Several trees were knocked down or snapped off from the tornado. Some minor damage also occurred to structures from falling trees and tree limbs.

The wider storm

A cold front moving through a moist and unstable airmass produced scattered severe thunderstorms across mainly the southern portion of Upper Michigan on the evening of the 27th.

Began near Vulcan (45.7859, -87.8853).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Dickinson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 254113. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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