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EF0 tornado in Coffey County, Kansas

Tornado May 6, 2024 · Coffey County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Survey revealed an old barn that had its metal roof panels removed and tossed approximately one half mile to the northeast into open fields. A narrow path of tree limb damage was also found around 1 mile to the southwest of the barn. The damage was suggestive of a small brief tornado in this area.

The wider storm

A long duration severe weather event occurred late afternoon into the night of May 6th. Supercell thunderstorms tracked across parts of central and northeast Kansas producing an EF0 tornado on the south side of Manhattan Kansas with baseball size hail also occurring with one of the storms. Additional storms developed after sunset across southeast Kansas and produced wind damage and also another small tornado south of Burlington Kansas.

Began near Sharpe (38.2400, -95.5900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Riley CountyEF0 Coffey County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1166343. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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