A Tornado Hit the South Suburbs Tuesday. Really!

Maybe you didn’t notice, but a tornado landed in the south suburbs on Tuesday. The National Weather Service concluded the storm that passed over Chicago Tuesday afternoon included an EF-0 tornado, which touched down in Summit at 1:08 p.m. for 60 seconds.

Winds hit 75 mph and the tornado’s path fell just shy of half a mile, from West 63rd Street near 73rd Avenue diagonally to the northeast, ending near Harlem Avenue near 60th Street, according to the NWS map.

Reports the NWS:

BASED ON A GROUND SURVEY OF THE DAMAGE AND RADAR DATA FROM THE O’HARE TERMINAL DOPPLER RADAR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CONCLUDED THAT THE DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN SUMMIT WAS LIKELY THE RESULT OF A VERY BRIEF EF-0 TORNADO. THE MAJORITY OF THE DAMAGE WAS TO TREES...WITH SEVERAL LARGE BRANCHES DOWN AND A COUPLE OF WEAKER HARD WOOD TREES SNAPPED. THERE WAS ALSO SOME MINOR ROOF DAMAGE AND A WOODEN FENCE PARTIALLY DOWNED.

EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES.

EF0 ... WEAK: 65 TO 85 MPH

EF1 ... WEAK: 86 TO 110 MPH

EF2 ... STRONG: 111 TO 135 MPH

EF3 ... STRONG: 136 TO 165 MPH

EF4 ... VIOLENT: 166 TO 200 MPH

EF5 ... VIOLENT: >200 MPH

The tornado that swept through western Illinois in April, taking two lives, was classified as an EF-4.

On Tuesday, most of the Chicago area was hit with scattered showers, high winds and cloudy skies, but nothing that approached “tornado-like” conditions. In Summit, however, the storm damaged rooftops and trees, and the debris damaged homes and cars.

Roberto Galvaz told NBC the storm felled a tree in his yard, which shattered the front window of his house. “It must have been some really strong wind coming through here,” said Galvaz.

Mari Gonzalez said the winds tore off part of her parents’ roof, and the debris landed on her car.