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EF2 tornado in Dane County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 16, 2014 · Dane County, Wisconsin

EF2

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

Tornado damaged at least 23 homes with some homes losing much of their roofs. Widespread uprooted and snapped trees within this heavily wooded neighborhood. Some large trees landing on homes. A few roofs had been pierced by 2-by-4s. Estimated winds up to 120 mph.

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 Shorewood Hills (43.0431, -89.4799).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Dane County EF1 Iowa County EF1 Green County EF1 Green County EF1 Dane County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 531149. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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