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EF0 tornado in Montgomery County, Illinois

Tornado July 15, 2020 · Montgomery County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
3.2 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 combination of a ground survey and satellite data shows an intermittent tornado path. The tornado touched down just south of Prange Avenue. It snapped and uprooted some trees near a residence on Prange Avenue. Satellite data shows the tornado continued northeast through cornfields, damaging more trees near Sewing and Mt. Olive Trails. Satellite data shows the tornado continued northeast, before lifting just west of Niemanville Trail. The tornado was rated as EF0 with a path length of 3.2 miles and max path width of 75 yards.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved through the region triggering showers and storms. Some of the storms produced damaging winds and a couple of tornadoes.

Began near Walshville (39.0338, -89.6904).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Montgomery CountyEF0 Montgomery CountyEFU Macoupin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 905891. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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