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EF1 tornado in Keith County, Nebraska

Tornado May 23, 2024 · Keith County, Nebraska

EF1

Rating

0.6 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$3.5M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Keith County → Keith County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado developed in open prairie east of North Shore, where a converging pattern of flattened grass was observed. The tornado traveled north across railroad tracks and flattened a fence line.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed over the central Nebraska Panhandle during the mid afternoon hours of May 23rd. As this activity moved east into better moisture and wind shear, storms became severe. Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes were reported.

Began near Lake Mc Conaghy (41.2600, -101.7800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Keith County EF1 Keith County EF1 Keith County EF0 Keith County EFU Garden County EFU Keith County EFU Keith County EFU Hayes County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1178036. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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