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EF0 tornado in Dickinson County, Kansas

Tornado June 11, 2008 · Dickinson County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 touched down in the town of Carlton. A few trees were reported to have been damaged.

The wider storm

Two long lived supercells wreaked havoc across portions of north central and northeast Kansas on the night of June 11th. Three significant tornadoes touched down, caused millions of dollars in damage, killed two, and critically injured three citizens. The town of Chapman saw the most extensive damage. Approximately three-quarters of the town were damaged by the tornado that passed through. Numerous homes were demolished, as were both the middle school and high school. One death occurred in Chapman, as a result of flying debris striking a young woman while she protected her child. The most severe, but more localized damage occurred in the Miller Ranch neighborhood in Manhattan, where several homes were completely destroyed. The Soldier, Kansas tornado was responsible for the other death. A man was killed in his mobile home when it flipped several times and was found a few miles from it's original location. The unoccupied home a few hundred feet from the mobile home went virtually untouched. Thousands of citizens turned up over the next few weeks to help with the clean-up effort in both Chapman and Manhattan.

Began near Carlton (38.6800, -97.2800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Riley CountyEF3 Dickinson County 1 deadEF2 Jackson County 2 deadEF0 Pottawatomie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 122000. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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