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F0 tornado in Jefferson County, Kansas

Tornado May 11, 2000 · Jefferson County, Kansas

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado formed just south of Grantville and moved east for a mile over open country doing minor power line damage before dissipating.

Began near Grantville (39.0833, -95.5667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F1 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5142316. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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