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EF0 tornado in Cherokee County, Kansas

Tornado May 6, 2024 · Cherokee County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

2.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$64K

Damage as recorded

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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

A NWS survey team determined that a tornado touched down to the northwest of Columbus near the intersection of NW Center Star and NW 40th St, downing trees in a convergent to rotational manner as it tracked northeast. As the tornado neared NW 30th St, several outbuildings were damaged to destroyed, with another barn on NW Lawton Rd experiencing door damage on its southeast and east sides. The tornado then destroyed one barn and damaged another as it crossed NW Belleview Road before dissipating.

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 Sherwin (37.2100, -94.8974).

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 1172712. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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