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EF0 tornado in Ford County, Kansas

Tornado August 29, 2022 · Ford County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

1.7 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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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 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

A weak landspout was videotaped by a local storm chaser.

The wider storm

A weak landspout tornado was video tapped by a storm chaser as late afternoon thunderstorms developed in a high cape and low shear environment. There were also several wet downbursts observed across the area.

Began near Spearville (37.8666, -99.7894).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1043579. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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