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EF1 tornado in Johnson County, Kansas

Tornado May 19, 2024 · Johnson County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

NWS Damage Survey confirmed a short lived EF-1 tornado developed due to a strong embedded circulation along a line of thunderstorms that moved northeast across Johnson County Kansas. The tornado began and ended on the south side of Gardner, KS around 10:20 PM CDT Sunday night, May 19th, 2024.

The wider storm

During the late evening hours of May 19th, a squall line brought severe wind gusts and a few tornadoes to portions of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties.

Began near Gardner Arpt (38.7837, -94.9398).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Johnson County EF1 Johnson County EF1 Leavenworth County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1263136. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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