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EF0 tornado in Waupaca County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 20, 2019 · Waupaca County, Wisconsin

EF0
Rating
7.5 mi
Whole path
75 yd
Path width
$125K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Waupaca County → Outagamie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 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 formed at 11:09 AM CDT and damaged a few trees before entering Outagamie County at 11:10 AM CDT about 1.4 miles south of New London.

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 New London (44.3547, -88.7610).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 841450. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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