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EF0 tornado in Barry County, Michigan

Tornado May 19, 2019 · Barry County, Michigan

EF0
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
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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 National Weather Service storm survey found that an EF-0 tornado struck southern Barry county. The tornado damage path began on Barryville Road about one

quarter mile south of Cloverdale Road and ended on Marshall Road about a quarter mile south of Maple Grove Road. Three barns on one farm were damaged just southeast of the intersection of Barryville and Cloverdale Road and a telephone pole was blown down a few hundred feet northeast of the barns. About a dozen trees were

snapped or uprooted along the path of the tornado.

The wider storm

Severe storms produced scattered pockets of damaging wind gusts in the form of downed trees, tree limbs, and several power poles and power lines that were downed. In addition a NWS storm survey confirmed that an EF-0 tornado struck southern Barry county and resulted in extensive damage to a few barns and some tree damage. There were no injuries or fatalities.

Began near Lacey (42.5334, -85.1745).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 824204. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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