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EF0 tornado in Wabaunsee County, Kansas

Tornado May 19, 2025 · Wabaunsee County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 small tornado produce tree damage just north of a property in southern Wabaunsee County. The small tornado moved east of highway 4 and into pastureland where there were few damage indicators. The end point was estimated based on radar imagery.

The wider storm

Slow moving severe t-storms developed during the late afternoon on May 19th. The storms produced some large hail reports and did produce one small tornado that did tree damage in Wabaunsee County. Otherwise, the greatest impact ended up being very heavy rains which produced over 3 inches of rain in spots and flash flooding.

Began near Alta Vista (38.8618, -96.3726).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1246028. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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