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EF0 tornado in Ford County, Kansas

Tornado June 2, 2009 · Ford County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.3 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 tornado made contact in a plowed field for about 45 seconds to a minute as it moved south/southwest.

The wider storm

An upper level disturbance passed slowly over the area and combined with some cold temperatures aloft and a warming surface helped to produce widespread thunderstorms. A few of these storms acquired rotation and became severe producing hail and heavy rain and isolated tornadoes.

Began near Howell (37.6580, -100.1400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Ford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 184324. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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