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EF0 tornado in Menominee County, Michigan

Tornado August 19, 2011 · Menominee County, Michigan

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, Wisconsin → Menominee County → Marinette County, Wisconsin; 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

About a dozen trees were uprooted and numerous branches broken in the Escanaba River State Forest along the Menominee River.

The wider storm

A deep low pressure system moving through northwest Ontario pushed a warm front across western Upper Michigan in the morning hours...followed by a cold frontal passage in the afternoon. The frontal boundaries produced several severe thunderstorms and two weak tornadoes over western Upper Michigan on the 19th.

Began near Longrie (45.3521, -87.8857).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Ontonagon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 342042. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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