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EF0 tornado in Seward County, Kansas

Tornado February 26, 2023 · Seward County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

3.9 mi

Path length

10 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

Tornado confirmed with storm survey.

The wider storm

A slight risk for severe weather for much of the western half of the CWA along a dryline that sparked initial discrete cell west of HWY 83 that produced some hail over the size of quarters and an isolated tornado. Towards sunset, a line formed becoming more of a wind gust and damaging wind event with several reports for both. DCAPE values up to 1K J/kg ending before midnight.

Began near Liberal (37.0300, -100.9300).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1081831. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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