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EF0 tornado in Kent County, Michigan

Tornado August 20, 2016 · Kent County, Michigan

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A brief EF-0 tornado touched down in Kent County near Perkins Avenue NE between Leonard Street NE and Knapp Street NE. Tree damage and some property damage from fallen trees occurred as the result of this brief tornado.

The wider storm

Six tornadoes struck southwest Michigan on August 20th. An EF-1 tornado touched down just southwest of Bangor on August 20th and tracked northeast through town. The entire city lost power as well as hundreds of trees. Multiple structures in Bangor were damaged as well.

The second tornado of the day began 6 miles southeast of Fennville and tracked to 4 miles northeast of Hamilton and was rated EF-1. The day's third tornado, also rated EF-1, began 2 miles northwest of Burnips in extreme north-central Allegan County and tracked to 2 miles southeast of Jamestown in extreme southeast Ottawa County.

The day's fourth tornado was rated an EF-0 and touched down near 44th Street and Ivanrest Ave SW in Grandville and continued on the ground along a varying path through Grandville and Wyoming before lifting near the intersection of Nagel Avenue SW and Chicago Drive SW. The fifth tornado was also an EF-0 and it touched down in Kent County near Perkins Avenue NE between Leonard Street NE and Knapp Street NE.

The final tornado of the day was an EF-1 that touched down just east of the small town of Orleans and moved northeast where it crossed M-44. It crossed into Montcalm county from Ionia county before lifting near Sheridan.

Began near Grand Rapids (42.9840, -85.6224).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Allegan CountyEF1 Allegan CountyEF1 Ottawa CountyEF1 Ionia CountyEF0 Kent County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 654698. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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