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EF0 tornado in Kiowa County, Kansas

Tornado April 30, 2012 · Kiowa County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 was a brief tornado even though the wall cloud persisted for about an hour.

The wider storm

A warm front lifting north was the focus for severe weather development during the afternoon. An upper level jet streak helped in creating the lift and speed shear to produce severe weather.

Began near Joy (37.5637, -99.4007).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Comanche County EF0 Ford County EF0 Edwards County EF0 Kiowa County EF0 Clark County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 380723. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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