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EF0 tornado in Gove County, Kansas

Tornado May 22, 2008 · Gove County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

10.7 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

This tornado developed 3 miles SW of Grainfield and moved north 11 miles into Sheridan county, dissipating 9 miles SW of Hoxie. This tornado remained over open fields.

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 Grainfield (39.0765, -100.5101).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Sheridan County EF1 Sheridan County EF1 Decatur County EF1 Gove County EF1 Decatur County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Sheridan County EF0 Gove County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 102903. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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