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EF0 tornado in Comanche County, Kansas

Tornado May 2, 2022 · Comanche County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

1.7 mi

Path length

35 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 35 yards (0.02 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

Landspout observed by law enforcement and storm spotters.

The wider storm

A shortwave trough moved across the CWA with a dryline along the Hwy 283 corridor. The majority of the prime ingredients were to the east into south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma in the enhanced risk area. With decent shear and instability in the cold core part of the surface low, a few landspout tornadoes were produced along with some reports of severe hail.

Began near Protection (37.2036, -99.5440).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Comanche County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032749. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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