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EF0 tornado in Gove County, Kansas

Tornado May 22, 2008 · Gove County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
3.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

No damage was reported with this tornado.

The wider storm

A series of intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the area during the afternoon and early evening hours. Long-track tornadoes, flash flooding, large hail and damaging winds were reported across much of northwest Kansas into extreme southern Nebraska. Eleven tornadoes were verified by storm chasers and damage surveys.

Began near Grinnell (38.9563, -100.6300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Sheridan CountyEF1 Sheridan CountyEF1 Decatur CountyEF1 Gove CountyEF1 Decatur CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Sheridan CountyEF0 Gove County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 102818. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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