Home / Kansas / Kearny

EF0 tornado in Kearny County, Kansas

Tornado June 4, 2013 · Kearny County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

2.9 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 tornado developed at an occlusion of the gust front but did not strike anything.

The wider storm

Abundant low level moisture was transported westward behind a cold front and then an approaching short wave trough helped to initiate thunderstorms and move them across the region.

Began near Lakin (37.8493, -101.4010).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Kiowa County EF0 Kiowa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 464713. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.