Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Washburn
28.02.2017 · Washburn · Illinois · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
5
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
29 km
Max. width
0,55 km
Duration
24
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 24
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,55 km
- Damage track length
- 29 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_January_to_March_2017#February_28_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Woodford, Marshall, La Salle
- Position
- W of Washburn to E of Rutland
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
5 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu open externally
Source
Quelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Link
1
Video
1
Info
1
Info
Info
Several outbuildings were destroyed, and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. One home was completely destroyed west of Washburn while nine houses in and around the city sustained significant damage to their structures, associated garages, and vehicles. Additional homes sustained lesser damage mainly to house roofs.
Key facts
- Date
- 28.02.2017
- Time
- 17:26:00
- Location
- Washburn
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
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