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EF0 tornado in Marinette County, Wisconsin

Tornado August 19, 2011 · Marinette County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

7.9 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Death

$125K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Marinette County → Menominee County, Michigan → Marinette County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 thunderstorm that produced the tornado near Wausaukee re-entered Wisconsin from Menominee County, MI along the Menominee River. The tornado uprooted several trees and snapped numerous branches (DI 28, DOD 2, 3) as it continued to weaken along Highway 180. One tree fell onto the roof of a home near Deer Lane Road.

The wider storm

A deadly tornado occurred in Marinette County in Wausaukee and isolated severe thunderstorms produced large hail and gusty winds across north-central Wisconsin. The storms knocked out electricity to 2,000 customers and caused at least $120,000 in damage.

Began near Wausaukee (45.3515, -87.8798).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 324662. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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