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EF0 tornado in Greeley County, Kansas

Tornado March 28, 2007 · Greeley County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
11.6 mi
Whole path
440 yd
Path width
$2K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Kiowa County, Colorado → Greeley County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 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

Law enforcement dashboard video showed large tornado in extreme western portion of Greeley county near the Kiowa county Colorado border with little or no damage noted due to low population density. Location estimated from Doppler radar circulation. This tornado began in Kiowa county near Towner and moved into Greeley county near Road L, moved NNE and dissipated just south of the Wallace county line.

The wider storm

A major Spring storm system affecting the Central High Plains produced 16 tornadoes and flash flooding, in addition to severe hail and wind. This was the most tornadoes reported in a single day in the Goodland County Warning Area. The most significant tornado was an EF2 which began in Sherman county and moved north across most of Cheyenne county in Kansas. Four homesteads suffered significant property damage along the 36 mile path length. In addition to the EF2 tornado, there were three EF1 and twelve EF0 tornadoes stretching from Greeley county Kansas into Dundy county Nebraska. No injuries or fatalities occurred.

Began near Tribune (38.5641, -102.0402).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Cheyenne CountyEF2 Sherman CountyEF1 Greeley CountyEF1 Cheyenne CountyEF1 Cheyenne CountyEF0 Wallace CountyEF0 Wallace CountyEF0 Decatur CountyEF0 Sherman CountyEF0 Greeley CountyEF0 Sherman CountyEF0 Sherman CountyEF0 Sherman CountyEF0 Sherman CountyEF0 Wallace CountyEF0 Cheyenne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 20360. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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