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EF0 tornado in Pottawatomie County, Kansas

Tornado April 28, 2025 · Pottawatomie County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

3.6 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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 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

What appeared to begin as a gustnado became connected to the storm updraft at least briefly along the leading edge of a thunderstorm as it moved through the small town of Belvue. The small vortex moved ENE for a few miles doing minor damage to trees and outbuildings before dissipating as strong outflow winds overwhelmed it.

The wider storm

In the late afternoon to evening hours, scattered storms developed and trained across portions of northeast Kansas, leading to isolated reports of Flash Flooding with up to 5 inches of rainfall reported. These storms also produced hail to baseball size, wind gusts to 70 mph, and a brief tornado in Pottawatomie county.

Began near Belvue (39.2200, -96.1700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1244373. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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