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F0 tornado in Leavenworth County, Kansas

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Leavenworth County, Kansas

F0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Brief tornado touchdown. Some structural damage noted to several residences.

The wider storm

A significant tornado outbreak occurred over portions of eastern Kansas and western Missouri on March 12, 2006. Three distinct rounds of severe weather occurred on March 12th, one in the morning, the second in the mid-afternoon hours, and the last round which occurred after sunset. In addition to the seventeen tornado touchdowns in the Pleasant Hill forecast area, 203 reports of large hail and/or damaging winds were also received from virtually every county in the Pleasant Hill service area. To put the March 12th outbreak into perspective, an average severe weather season in our local area brings approximately 11 tornadoes, and around 400 reports of hail and/or damaging wind to the local region. Unfortunately, 6 lives were lost from the tornadoes that struck Urich, Sedalia, and Renick, Missouri. Another 60 persons were injured. Damage estimates in the Kansas City metropolitan area alone reached $6.58 million.

Began near Linwood (39.0000, -95.0167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Linn County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5498325. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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