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EF0 tornado in Antrim County, Michigan

Tornado August 28, 2018 · Antrim County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

6.6 mi

Path length

70 yd

Path width

$80K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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 tornado with estimated maximum winds of 80 mph touched down south of Alba, and followed a discontinuous path to the northeast, lifting just before the Otsego County line. A number of hardwood and softwood trees were downed.

The wider storm

Another line of thunderstorms crossed northern Michigan in the evening of the 28th. This line produced considerable wind damage, along with a handful of tornadoes.

Began near Alba (44.9344, -85.0003).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Ogemaw County EF1 Arenac County EF0 Arenac County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 782815. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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