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Tornado May 1, 2024 · Gove County, Kansas

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Not rated
0.1 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Multiple storm chasers reported an EF-U landspout tornado in a field east of Highway 23. Location is an approximate and it did not appear to move far from where it developed over it's brief life. No damage was observed or reported.

The wider storm

Two rounds of severe weather impacted Northwest Kansas as a strong low pressure system moved across the Central High Plains. Initially, two strong supercells moved over the southern halves of Logan and Gove counties producing up to grapefruit sized hail and two EF-Unknown landspout tornadoes. The hail and tornadoes primarily occurred in southern Gove County along and east of Highway 25. One of the landspouts developed along the Gove-Lane county line and continued on into northern Lane County. No damage was reported with either tornado. During the evening hours, a linear cluster of storms moved across Northwest Kansas from Colorado producing large hail and wind gusts estimated up to 96 mph. The strongest winds occurred in Eastern Graham County where estimated 90-96 mph straight line winds produced significant damage to two metal buildings.

Began near Gove (38.7497, -100.4661).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1176393. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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