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EF0 tornado in Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Tornado July 20, 2019 · Outagamie County, Wisconsin

EF0

Rating

4.2 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$85K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 brief tornado damaged a few tree limbs (DI 27,28, DOD 2) and took some shingles and siding off a house (DI 2, DOD 2) northeast of Greenville. A power pole was also damaged. Peak winds were estimated near 85 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 Greenville (44.3158, -88.4978).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Waupaca County EF1 Waupaca County EF0 Waupaca County EF0 Outagamie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 841755. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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