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EF0 Tornado — Cherokee, Kansas

2024-05-06 · near Melrose, Cherokee, Kansas

$300K

Property damage

20.9 mi

Path length

250 yds

Path width

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1167388. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.