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EF0 tornado in Decatur County, Kansas

Tornado June 20, 2011 · Decatur County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 was brief and remained over open fields with no known damage. Law enforcement reported two tornadoes occurring at the same time...one about one and a half miles east of Norcatur, and another about a mile north of Norcatur (this tornado).

The wider storm

A strong, slow-moving low pressure system moved across northwest Kansas during the afternoon, resulting in over a dozen tornadoes, some strong and long-lived. The strongest tornadoes occurred over Graham and Norton counties. Other reports of baseball sized hail were received.

Began near Norcatur (39.8445, -100.1800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Graham CountyEF3 Norton CountyEF3 Norton CountyEF1 Graham CountyEF1 Graham CountyEF1 Norton CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Graham CountyEF0 Norton CountyEF0 Sheridan CountyEF0 Decatur CountyEF0 Norton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 327339. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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