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EF0 tornado in Kiowa County, Kansas

Tornado May 26, 2008 · Kiowa County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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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

This was a brief tornado that last about 30 seconds.

The wider storm

The final severe weather outbreak produced from the slow moving upper level disturbance produced hail and a few tornadoes.

Began near Wellsford (37.5576, -99.0309).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Stafford County EF1 Pratt County EF0 Pratt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 109738. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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