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EF0 tornado in Wichita County, Kansas

Tornado May 23, 2008 · Wichita County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Brief tornado reported NW of Leoti with no known damage.

The wider storm

Intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the region during the afternoon and evening hours producing 10 tornadoes, including an F4 tornado just SW of Quinter. Extremely heavy rainfall also resulted in flooding in many areas. Many of these thunderstorms occurred in the same areas as the storms the previous day.

Began near Leoti (38.4966, -101.4013).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Gove County EF2 Gove County EF1 Gove County EF1 Graham County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Sheridan County EF0 Sheridan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 103777. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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