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F0 tornado in Republic County, Kansas

Tornado June 22, 2003 · Republic County, Kansas

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 touched down 4 miles west of Munden and blew a sheriffs car into the ditch before dissipating.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed over Republic county the evening of the 22nd and persisted into the early morning hours of the 23rd. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds along with several tornadoes (discussed separately) were the result. The persistance of the thunderstorms in the same location led to flash flooding in Republic County as well as the Republican River to flood and do considerable crop damage.

Began near Munden (39.9167, -97.5833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Republic County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5364210. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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