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EF0 tornado in Sherman County, Kansas

Tornado July 20, 2009 · Sherman County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

1.5 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 tornado was observed by law enforcement and an NWS employee. The tornado remained over open fields with no known damage.

The wider storm

An intense supercell developed in western Nebraska during the afternoon and moved south through the evening hours, producing golf ball to softball sized hail and damaging wind gusts to near 80 mph. Millions of dollars in property and crop damage and livestock fatalities and injuries occurred as a result.

Began near Goodland Arpt (39.5400, -101.7100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Sherman County EF0 Logan County EF0 Cheyenne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 181511. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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