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EF1 tornado in Gogebic County, Michigan

Tornado July 11, 2016 · Gogebic County, Michigan

EF1

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$100K

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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The NWS storm survey confirmed a low end EF1 tornado about three miles south of Bessemer. Winds from the tornado were estimated around 90 mph. The tornado touched down near the intersection of S. Barber Road and Spruce Road and ended 2.4 miles to the east-northeast, just northeast of the intersection of W. Harding Road and Koski Road. Damage included multiple trees down on a garage on Spruce Street and half a barn destroyed in Bessemer Township on Elder Street.

The damage path was 200 yards wide or less and occurred just before midnight CDT.

The wider storm

A warm and humid air mass ahead of a low pressure system approaching from the Northern Plains set the stage for the formation of severe thunderstorms over portions of Gogebic County from late evening on the 11th into the early morning of the 12th. The storms caused flash flooding and damaging winds over portions of Gogebic County.

Began near Puritan (46.4341, -90.0630).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Gogebic County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 649456. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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