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EF0 tornado in Finney County, Kansas

Tornado April 29, 2009 · Finney County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.7 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

This was a landspout that developed southwest of Garden City but occurred over sand hills full of sage brush and did not cause any damage.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms, an one in particular (which started as a LP Supercell), produced very large hail and 5 tornadoes. There were also numerous gustnadoes and downburts reported.

Began near Holcomb (37.8848, -100.9652).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 168508. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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