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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 19, 2019 · Lincoln County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
6.5 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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

Scattered trees were damaged (DI 28, DOD 2,3) by a tornado in northwest Lincoln County. The tornado was seen by the public. Peak winds were estimated at 75-80 mph.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms moved across much of central, north central, and eastern Wisconsin during the evening hours of July 19, 2019. Widespread tree and power line damage was reported from central Wisconsin into the Fox Valley and lake shore. WPS reported over 50,000 outages at the height of the storm.

The worst damage was associated with a macroburst, a large downburst of straight-line winds that affected a large swath from Pelican Lake in Oneida County, southeast through Langlade and Oconto counties. Hundreds of thousands of trees were snapped or uprooted, resulting in damage to dozens of homes and cottages. The damage path was about 60 miles long and up to 10 miles wide at times. Winds were likely near 100 mph in the hardest hit areas near Lily in northeast Langlade County and near the Langlade-Oconto County line southwest of Boot Lake.

Began near Spirit Falls (45.5510, -90.0356).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Marathon CountyEF0 Oneida County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 841391. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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