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EF1 tornado in Lafayette County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 16, 2014 · Lafayette County, Wisconsin

EF1

Rating

5.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$1.6M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lafayette County → Lafayette County → Iowa County → Iowa County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Numerous downed trees and snapped trees through the woods.

The wider storm

A Quasi-linear convective system with a cyclonic rotating comma head on the north end produced numerous tornadoes and damaging straight line winds. Governor Walker declared a State of Emergency for Green and Dane counties due to the extensive damage from severe thunderstorms and tornadoes that occurred from June 16-18.

Began near Leslie (42.8119, -90.3672).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Dane County EF2 Dane County EF1 Green County EF1 Green County EF1 Dane County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 516633. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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