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EF0 tornado in Bourbon County, Kansas

Tornado April 26, 2024 · Bourbon County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 storm survey determined that a weak EF-0 tornado occurred, with a path length of 3.12 miles and a width of 75 yards. Maximum wind speeds of 85 mph led to siding damage on a home, five outbuildings damaged or destroyed, and a number of trees either uprooted or having large limbs snapped.

The wider storm

Flooding of small creeks and streams and major flooding along the Marmaton and Little Osage river basins occurred thanks to 2 to 4 inches of rain falling on already saturated ground from previous rainfall on the 25th. Isolated severe storms produced a brief EF-0 tornado in Bourbon County.

Began near Uniontown (37.8900, -94.9600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1175013. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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