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EF0 tornado in Kittitas County, Washington

Tornado May 1, 2024 · Kittitas County, Washington

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

1 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1 yards (0.00 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 video taken from George, WA showed a landspout travelling across far northeastern Kittitas county. The event time is estimated based on radar trends and time video was received.

The wider storm

A marginally unstable atmosphere and breezy winds in the region resulted in a landspout developing in far northeastern Kittitas county.

Began near Vantage (47.0693, -120.0547).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1187547. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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