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EF0 tornado in Anderson County, Kansas

Tornado February 28, 2007 · Anderson County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

1.2 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

A weak EF-0 tornado touched down briefly in open country producing no damage. It developed from a parent HP-supercell thunderstorm. The path width was around 50 yards and the length was around one mile.

The wider storm

A low pressure system pushed northeastward out of Oklahoma during the afternoon hours the 28th. The warm front extending from the low provided a focus for thunderstorm development. Tornadoes, gusty winds, and large hail were all reported across the Topeka CWA, with the first reports received just after 18:00 CST.

Began near Colony (38.0534, -95.4209).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Anderson County EF1 Anderson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 17262. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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