F0 tornado in Pierce County, Wisconsin

Tornado June 11, 2005 · Pierce County, Wisconsin

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 briefly touched down near the intersection of 900th Street and 850th Street in Section 16 of River Falls Township. The tornado downed more than 30 trees, blew off two access doors to an attic, and blew in the sliding door of a pole barn. After the tornado lifted, eyewitnesses said they saw the funnel cloud rise and fall from the storm as it moved to the northeast across Interstate 94. This storm was the same one that produced the F1 tornado in Hammond a short time later.

Began near River Falls (44.8167, -92.5833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Barron County F1 St. Croix County F0 St. Croix County F0 Polk County F0 St. Croix County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5462293. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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