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Tornado in Pottawatomie County, Kansas

Tornado August 14, 2024 · Pottawatomie County, Kansas

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

A storm chaser provided photos of what appeared to be a ragged funnel on the ground. No damage was reported with this tornado. Times were based on radar data and photos.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced numerous reports of damaging winds during the evening of August 14th. Many of the damage reports were likely due to what are called wet downbursts of locally damaging winds of 65 to 80 mph. A supercell thunderstorm also developed near a warm frontal boundary and did produce a brief tornado based on photos however no damage was reported.

Began near Fostoria (39.5330, -96.5430).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Pottawatomie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1193089. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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