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EF0 tornado in Elk County, Kansas

Tornado May 10, 2010 · Elk County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

The tornado briefly touched down in a pasture and caused no damage.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours of May 10th, 2010, ahead of an approaching dry line and warm front. This dynamic environment coupled with an unstable airmass led to the development of thunderstorms to the west and south of Wichita, Kansas with tornado producing supercells moving across portions of South Central Kansas. Two supercells in particular produced significant damage across portions of Kingman, Sedgwick and Cowley counties with some of the damage classified as EF-2 damage by survey teams.

Began near Grenola (37.3139, -96.5034).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Sumner CountyEF2 Kingman CountyEF1 Kingman CountyEF1 Sedgwick CountyEF1 Cowley CountyEF1 Cowley CountyEF0 Kingman County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 220465. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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