EF0 tornado in Meade County, Kansas

Tornado March 28, 2007 · Meade County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

2.7 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

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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 separate tornado that formed in the same general vicinity but did not hit anything.

The wider storm

Major tornado outbreak and severe weather swept across parts of western Kansas. Fortunately, there were no injuries or fatalities despite major destruction.

Began near Meade (37.3280, -100.2696).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Hodgeman County EF1 Meade County EF1 Gray County EF1 Ford County EF0 Hamilton County EF0 Ford County EF0 Meade County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 24148. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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