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EF0 tornado in Stafford County, Kansas

Tornado May 5, 2007 · Stafford County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
4.5 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado apparently did no damage.

The wider storm

Unbelievably, an outbreak of tornadoes, some very large in size, raked the earth in basically the same area as the day before when Greensburg was nearly completely leveled. Although some of the tornadoes were large and apparently very strong, there was no loss of life on this day. A National Weather Service assessment team was in an area about 30 minutes before a tornado moved through. They also saw one tornado during the storm survey of damage that was produced the day before.

Began near Bedford Station (38.0280, -98.5990).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Edwards CountyEF2 Kiowa CountyEF1 Kiowa CountyEF1 Edwards CountyEF1 Stafford CountyEF1 Stafford CountyEF1 Pratt CountyEF0 Comanche CountyEF0 Kiowa CountyEF0 Edwards CountyEF0 Pratt CountyEF0 Kiowa CountyEF0 Stafford CountyEF0 Stafford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 36046. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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