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EF0 tornado in Will County, Illinois

Tornado June 20, 2021 · Will County, Illinois

EF0
Rating
4.8 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 with peak winds of 85 mph touched down near the intersection of Route 59 and Route 126, just north of downtown Plainfield. Numerous large tree limbs and a few trees were blown down in a neighborhood south of Route 126 and north of Lockport Street. A tree limb was impaled into a home on Hawthorn Circle. Minor tree damage occurred in the Lake Renwick Preserve. The tornado crossed Interstate 55 with a path of sporadic tree damage in the Fieldstone neighborhood of Romeoville near Helen Drive. Tree damage occurred in the Mistwood Golf Club including tree limbs removed from the top of trees. A narrow path of concentrated tree damage occurred near Rosemarie Lane. The tornado lifted in the vicinity of Thomas Drive just east of Weber Road.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms moved across northern Illinois during the late evening of June 20th and the early morning of June 21st producing wind damage and three tornadoes.

Began near Plainfield (41.6134, -88.2032).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 960214. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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