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EF0 tornado in Ness County, Kansas

Tornado May 18, 2013 · Ness County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.3 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

A brief multi-vortex tornado lasted just a couple of minutes.

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 Brownell (38.6771, -99.7453).

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 Pawnee County EF0 Trego County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 457699. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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