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EF2 tornado in Iowa County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 29, 2014 · Iowa County, Wisconsin

EF2

Rating

29.1 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

$3.5M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

A long track swath of sporadic to continuous tornado damage. Hundreds of trees uprooted, snapped, and damaged. Dozens of farm buildings damaged or destroyed, including many silos down. 59 homes damaged with 4 destroyed. Intermittent damaging downburst winds were likely adjacent to the tornado path. An area of corn leveled.

The wider storm

A cluster of supercellular storms caused 3 tornadoes, and downburst wind damage over south central WI during the late evening.

Began near Montfort Jct (43.0123, -90.4216).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Iowa County EF1 Dane County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 531379. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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