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EF0 tornado in Chautauqua County, Kansas

Tornado April 30, 2024 · Chautauqua County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
15 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 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

Brief tornado touchdown reported via Facebook with damage pictures to tree sent in. A couple of hardwood trees were snapped but had compromised trunks. Nearby cedar trees had broken branches, and trunks snapped.

The wider storm

A cold front moved into central Kansas during the afternoon hours of April 30th and storms erupted along it by around 5 pm. Extreme instability allowed storms to quickly become severe producing large hail and a landspout tornado. Storms continued to intensify as they tracked south and east with one of the storms producing up to baseball sized hail in Harper County! In addition, before moving into Oklahoma, one storm started to show impressive low level rotation and eventually produced a brief EF-1 tornado north of Sedan. One brief EF-U tornado occurred near Augusta.

Began near Sedan (37.1641, -96.2307).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Butler CountyEFU Harvey County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167395. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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