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EF0 tornado in Chase County, Kansas

Tornado April 19, 2023 · Chase County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

13.9 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

Injury

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Chase County → Chase County → Chase County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

The second tornado of the event was found following assessment of drone footage courtesy of Chase County Sheriff. This brief tornado damaged two farm outbuildings with parts of the roof torn off and was rated an EF0.

The wider storm

A lone supercell thunderstorm moved from south central Kansas into central Kansas during the afternoon and evening of April 19th, 2023. The cyclic storm produced very large hail up to 4 inches in diameter and numerous tornadoes across Chase county, Kansas. Eight tornadoes formed from the supercell with the strongest producing EF2 damage.

Began near Elmdale (38.3376, -96.6803).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Chase County EF1 Chase County EF1 Chase County EF0 Chase County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1089740. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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