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EF0 tornado in Cherokee County, Kansas

Tornado June 10, 2007 · Cherokee County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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 photographer from KODE TV in Joplin filmed a tornado briefly touching down. The tornado was located one mile south southeast of the intersection of Highway 400 and 7. No damage occurred as the tornado mainly impacted an open field.

The wider storm

Several waves of heavy rainfall occurred over southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri between June 10th and June 12th. The Spring River basin was especially impacted with this heavy rain. The Waco, Missouri DCP guage along the Spring River measured 12 inches during one overnight episode. This caused massive flooding of small creeks and main stem rivers across Cherokee, Crawford, and Bourbon counties. One weak tornado touched down in northern Cherokee County on the 10th. Meanwhile a few other minor episodes of wind damage and large hail occurred in Crawford County.

Began near Weir (37.3000, -94.8063).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 44140. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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