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EF0 tornado in Cherokee County, Kansas

Tornado May 6, 2024 · Cherokee County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

24.1 mi

Whole path

250 yd

Path width

$350K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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

A NWS Survey team confirmed that an intermittent EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 80 mph caused damage to multiple barns and numerous uprooted or snapped trees. This is an extension of a tornado out of Ottawa County, OK that occurred on the night of May 6.

The wider storm

A shortwave trough and an associated cold front pushed through far southeast Kansas during the late evening hours on May 6, 2024. Thunderstorms developed along the front, growing upscale to a linear storm mode by the time they reached southeast Kansas. This line of thunderstorms produced a swath of damaging winds, along with two EF-0 tornadoes in Cherokee County before continuing into the Missouri Ozarks.

Began near Melrose (37.0000, -94.9600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Cherokee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167388. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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