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EF0 tornado in Harper County, Kansas

Tornado June 17, 2025 · Harper County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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 brief tornado was reported by the emergency manager which pulled two stop signs out of the ground, and an ad bulletin sign was snapped off at the post.

The wider storm

During the early morning hours of Tuesday June 17th, a line of storms developed into a bow echo as it progressed south. This line of storms produced extremely strong winds as it tracked south, with Hutchinson reporting an 89 mph gust and the Wichita Airport seeing a 102 mph gust! This was the strongest wind gust ever reported at the Wichita Airport.

These extreme winds caused extensive damage with Sedgwick County receiving around 250 reports of power lines being down which resulted in around 85,000 residents with out power. The stronger wind gusts around 50 to 60 mph lasted for around an hour.

Additional storms developed throughout the day producing wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph, near four inch hail in Arkansas City and a brief tornado in Harper County. Tree damage was extensive throughout much of Wichita and surrounding areas especially with multiple rounds of strong winds. The hail in Arkansas City was baseball to softball sized which led to damage of vehicles, homes and businesses across town.

Began near Harper (37.2391, -98.0398).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267016. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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