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EF0 tornado in Waupaca County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 20, 2019 · Waupaca County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$150K
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

Brief tornado damaged several trees (DI 27,28, DOD 2,3) on the south side of Weyauwega. Peak wind estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

For the second consecutive day, a line of powerful thunderstorms moved across portions of central and east-central Wisconsin. The worst damage occurred from Wood/Portage counties eastward into the Fox Valley and lakeshore. Trees were uprooted or snapped and several structures were damaged as a result of straight-line winds and six weak, fast-moving tornadoes.

There was also a fatality due to drowning in Keshena (Menominee Co.) from abnormally fast flows on the Wolf River.

Began near Weyauwega (44.3115, -88.9345).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Waupaca CountyEF1 Waupaca CountyEF1 Outagamie CountyEF0 Outagamie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 841443. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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