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EF1 tornado in Wabash County, Illinois

Tornado April 19, 2011 · Wabash County, Illinois

EF1
Rating
2.8 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 mobile home was rolled. Numerous large and mature trees were snapped and uprooted. Power poles were down. Siding was blown off a house. The well-defined path extended through dense cedar and pine groves, where nearly every tree was snapped or uprooted. A back porch was blown off. Peak winds were estimated around 110 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms organized into a bow echo that produced widespread very damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. A shortwave trough over the central and southern high Plains moved northeast through the Mid-Mississippi Valley into the upper Great Lakes. A surface low attendant to this system moved from west central Missouri northeast to north of St. Louis. The trailing cold front advanced southeast across the Lower Ohio Valley and served as the primary focus for thunderstorms.

Began near Allendale (38.5300, -87.7866).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 289168. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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