TornadoLookup

Home / Kansas / Lyon

EF0 tornado in Lyon County, Kansas

Tornado April 14, 2012 · Lyon County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
25 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

A brief tornado was observed approximately 4 miles southwest of Olpe by storm spotters. The tornado did no damage and was only briefly observed before dissipating.

The wider storm

A volatile environment developed across Kansas that featured extremely strong wind shear and sufficient buoyancy (called convective energy) to allow supercell thunderstorms to develop ahead of a dry line across central Kansas. The supercells produced strong to violent tornadoes across central Kansas and tracked into parts of the NWS Topeka county warning area during the evening. A handful of tornadoes were reported along with some large hail reports with the most numerous reports of large hail occurring after midnight.

Began near Olpe (38.2165, -96.1982).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Morris CountyEF1 Ottawa CountyEF0 Dickinson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 365371. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.