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EF0 tornado in Pawnee County, Kansas

Tornado May 18, 2013 · Pawnee County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

2.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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 cone tornado was the third in a series but only lasted for a short time. No damage was observed.

The wider storm

High instability was in place as an upper level wind maxima moved out of the base of a deep upper trough in the west.

Began near Ash Valley (38.2420, -99.1818).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Pawnee County EF1 Ellis County EF1 Pawnee County EF0 Ellis County EF0 Ness County EF0 Trego County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 457697. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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