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EF0 tornado in Montgomery County, Illinois

Tornado April 27, 2016 · Montgomery County, Illinois

EF0

Rating

4.9 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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

Intermittent brief touchdowns recorded by storm chasers in open fields to the west, south and southeast of Raymond. No damage was observed. The tornado has been rated EF0 with a path length of 4.94 miles and a max path width of 25 yards.

The wider storm

A warm front was draped across northeast Missouri into south central Illinois. Storms developed along the boundary. Some of the storms became severe with large hail, damaging winds and 4 tornadoes.

Began near Raymond (39.3050, -89.5999).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 640452. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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