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EF0 tornado in Kiowa County, Kansas

Tornado June 4, 2013 · Kiowa County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 small tornado developed on the leading edge of a squall line. The couplet on radar was very strong.

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 Belvidere (37.4077, -99.2982).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Kiowa County EF0 Kearny County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 464773. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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