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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Kansas

Tornado May 6, 2015 · Lincoln County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

10.7 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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

Multiple vortex tornado moved to the northeast across open country. Minor damage was noted at one farmstead when a sheet metal roof was blown across the road (DI1 DOD2). Otherwise, minor tree damage occurred sporadically along the path. Several cedar trees were snapped in the cemetery on the east side of Lincoln. The tornado was 100 yards wide.

The wider storm

A modest dryline developed across South Central and Central Kansas during the afternoon hours of May 6th, 2015. Moderate instability and shear combined to produce supercell thunderstorms across South Central Kansas and Central Kansas.

The supercell thunderstorms produced some large hail, but also produced five tornadoes across the area. One of the tornadoes was rated an EF3, with another rated an EF2.

Began near Lincoln (38.9057, -98.1893).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Sedgwick County EF0 Sedgwick County EF0 Harper County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 565777. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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