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EF0 tornado in Lane County, Kansas

Tornado June 20, 2009 · Lane County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

4.2 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

This was a tornado that made intermittent contact. The base of the shower was extremely low and it was underneath a cold core upper low.

The wider storm

An upper level low with cold air aloft helped to produce low-topped showers and thunderstorms, some of which produced small tornadoes.

Began near Shields (38.6320, -100.4350).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Pawnee County EF0 Kiowa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 186083. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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