Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Sawyerville
07.03.2017 · Sawyerville · Illinois · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
21 km
Max. width
0,091 km
Duration
13
Injured
1
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 13
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,091 km
- Damage track length
- 21 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#March_7_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 1
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Macoupin, Montgomery
- Position
- Sawyerville to SE of Litchfield
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu open externally
Source
Quelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
One garage in Sawyerville was destroyed, damaging two cars inside. Homes in town sustained minor damage, an RV camper was rolled, and trees and power poles were downed. Some falling trees landed on homes in Sawyerville. Outside of town, the tornado continued to the northeast and caused additional minor damage to trees, homes, and outbuildings before dissipating.
Key facts
- Date
- 07.03.2017
- Time
- 00:50:00
- Location
- Sawyerville
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States
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