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EF0 tornado in Cowley County, Kansas

Tornado September 15, 2010 · Cowley County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
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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

Rope tornado touched down in an open field.

The wider storm

A combination of a low pressure area along the Kansas Oklahoma border, and an outflow boundary across South Central Kansas, led to the development of supercell thunderstorms across South Central Kansas. The supercells thunderstorms were noted for a swath of very large hail that extended from West Wichita to near Udall Kansas. Numerous reports of grapefruit or larger hail were reported across Wichita, with one such hail stone in West Wichita, Kansas, breaking the state record for diameter of 7.75 inches. A few weak tornadoes were also produced, with all the tornadoes moving across open country.

Began near Rock (37.3677, -96.9307).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Sedgwick CountyEF0 Sedgwick CountyEF0 Sedgwick CountyEF0 Greenwood CountyEF0 Greenwood CountyEF0 Cowley CountyEF0 Cowley County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 250754. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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