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EF0 tornado in Dickinson County, Michigan

Tornado July 27, 2010 · Dickinson County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

90 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 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 EF0 tornado touched down in a wooded area about one mile northeast of Vulcan. The tornado was on the ground for about one-quarter mile and had a width of less than 100 yards. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped off from this tornado as its peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.

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 (45.7853, -87.8473).

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 254116. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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