EF1 tornado in Wabaunsee County, Kansas

Tornado April 29, 2022 · Wabaunsee County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

11.1 mi

Whole path

30 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pottawatomie County → Wabaunsee County → Pottawatomie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Radar and NWS storm survey data indicated that the small tornado moved across open field and produced low end EF1 tree damage and tossed a grain storage container as it moved back toward the Kansas river the border of Pottawatomie county again.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed and moved across much of central and northeast Kansas during the late afternoon and evening of April 29th. The storms produced large hail, damaging winds and 5 confirmed tornadoes. All of the tornadoes were rated EF0 or EF1.

Began near Wabaunsee (39.1870, -96.3250).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Dickinson County EF1 Dickinson County EF1 Jackson County EF0 Dickinson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1012470. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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