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EF0 tornado in Arenac County, Michigan

Tornado August 28, 2018 · Arenac County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$45K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 85 mph briefly touched down along the Rifle River, about 4 miles northeast of Sterling. A number of hardwood and softwood trees were knocked over or snapped, damaging a few structures in the process.

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 Sterling (44.0793, -83.9773).

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 Antrim County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 782819. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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