F0 tornado in Piatt County, Illinois

Tornado April 20, 2000 · Piatt County, Illinois

Rating

3.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado made a series of touchdowns over a 3.5 mile path. In Lodge, the tornado briefly touched down destroying a chimney on a house, then lifted and moved to the east. It touched down one more time near the intersection of Route 10 and I-72 in a field. No injuries were reported.

Began near Lodge (40.1000, -88.5500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Macon County F1 Macon County F0 Sangamon County F0 Logan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5141937. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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