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EF0 tornado in Dickinson County, Kansas

Tornado April 14, 2012 · Dickinson County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

The parent storm of the tornado that moved through Ottawa and Dickinson Counties formed another brief and weak tornado between Manchester and Industry. The only evidence of this tornado comes in the form of spotter and chaser reports, as survey teams did not locate any damage. The tornado dissipated over an open field near Industry.

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 Buckeye (39.1300, -97.2000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Morris County EF1 Ottawa County EF0 Lyon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 365427. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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