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EF0 tornado in Hamilton County, Kansas

Tornado April 27, 2024 · Hamilton County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Damaged outbuilding and power poles. Reported as a tornado with picture but could be a tornado or landspout.

The wider storm

Storms produced large hail and a few landspouts across western Kansas on 04/27.

Began near Kendall (38.0100, -101.5500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1173772. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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