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EF0 tornado in Sanilac County, Michigan

Tornado September 10, 2019 · Sanilac County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

3.8 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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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 weak tornado touched down and tracked southeast, with peak winds estimated to be 80 mph. Trees were blown down and a barn destroyed. Large tree limbs were also brought down around one house. Otherwise, the track was confirmed via corn field crop damage.

The wider storm

A warm front lifting toward Saginaw Bay during the day caused scattered severe thunderstorms producing mostly wind damage north of the I-69 corridor. A weak tornado also developed near Marlette.

Began near Juhl (43.3776, -83.0064).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 847058. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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