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EF0 tornado in Riley County, Kansas

Tornado April 20, 2023 · Riley County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.2 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

Fire Department Chief relayed damage reports from southeast side of Randolph damage to signs at intersection of Senn Road, highway 77 and Gardiner road along with minor tree limb damage. Short path and sporadic sometimes very sparse damage appears to suggest any vortex was not on the ground continuously but aloft more often than not as it moved across the area.

The wider storm

One tornado was documented that moved north out of Chase county into far southeast Morris County around 905 pm CDT. The tornado did damage to trees and one home before ending around 3 miles south southwest of Dunlap, Kansas. Other storms produced large hail and damaging winds. A second line of severe storms developed after midnight during the early morning hours of April 20th and produced wind damage most concentrated in Clay County in the city of Clay Center.

Began near Randolph (39.4134, -96.7649).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Morris County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1084490. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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