F0 tornado — Oneida County, Wisconsin

F0 tornado in Oneida County, Wisconsin

Tornado April 18, 2002 · Oneida County, Wisconsin

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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.

The wider storm

A warm front across Wisconsin lifted north during the afternoon and evening. Moist and very unstable air south of the front led to the development of severe thunderstorms. The storms produced 5 tornadoes, damaging straight line winds, large hail and some flooding.Brief tornado touchdowns in Lincoln county, Oneida county and Marathon county snapped numerous trees. Marathon county had hundreds of trees downed and numerous barns and farm sheds destroyed by a combination of straight line winds and a tornado that remained on the ground for 14 miles. Plows had to be used in Marathon county to clear trees from some of the roads.Other storms across central, north-central and east-central Wisconsin downed numerous trees, dropped hail as large as 3 inches in diameter, in Lincoln county, and flooded roads and basements in the Niagara (Marinette co.) and Rhinelander (Oneida co.) areas.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5293643. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F0 tornado in Oneida County, Wisconsin

The wider storm

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