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EF0 tornado in Keith County, Nebraska

Tornado May 23, 2024 · Keith County, Nebraska

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 brief tornado developed along the northern beach, generally east of North Shore and south of Lakeview Neighborhood, and traveled east. One camper was flipped and another camper rolled approximately twice. Multiple cottonwood trees were either uprooted or had large branches broken.

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 (41.2590, -101.7740).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Keith County EF1 Keith County EF1 Keith County EF1 Keith County EFU Garden County EFU Keith County EFU Keith County EFU Hayes County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1178042. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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