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Based on an initial damage assessment of a tornado that made landfall in the suburb of Naperville Sunday night, the National Weather Service estimates that the tornado was an EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, packing wind speeds of approximately 140 miles per hour.
The NWS conducted a damage survey in the area Monday morning after the tornado hit the area. According to the service, the tornado made landfall near Naperville just after 11 p.m. Sunday and ended near Willow Springs.
The team has cleared damages in Naperville and Woodridge, and will be making its way through Darien, Burr Ridge and Willow Springs in the coming days.
The damage that the team surveyed was “corresponding to the corresponding wind speeds” of an EF-1 or EF-2 tornado, but one pocket of damage, located near Princeton Circle in Naperville, corresponded to an EF-3 rating, indicating that the tornado was a packing speed Winds are between 136 and 165 mph.
The Enhanced Fujita Scale, used in 2007, uses wind gusts estimated in increments of three seconds to determine a hurricane’s strength and strength.
All estimates are preliminary, and additional information about the path, length and width of the hurricane will be gathered in the coming days as the survey crew continues its work.
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