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EF0 tornado in Kent County, Michigan

Tornado June 26, 2021 · Kent County, Michigan

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

An NWS storm survey determined that an EF-0 tornado was on the ground for a minute with a path length of 0.6 miles. Several trees and limbs were snapped from Bennett Street and Cumberland Avenue to Vergennes Street east of Cumberland Avenue.

The wider storm

A low pressure system and warm front combined to setup conditions favorable for the development of several weak tornadoes on June 26th. Storm damage surveys were conducted and it was determined that two EF-1 tornadoes occurred and that several EF-0 tornadoes occurred.

Began near Lowell (42.9510, -85.3920).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Ionia County EF1 Mecosta County EF0 Ottawa County EF0 Ionia County EF0 Clare County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 960425. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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