F0 tornado in Lincoln County, Kansas

Tornado May 4, 1999 · Lincoln County, Kansas

Rating

6.0 mi

Whole path

55 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lincoln County → Mitchell County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 55 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

Remaining over open country, the tornado crossed the Lincoln/Mitchell County line, 4 miles northwest of Ash Grove where it lifted just west of Hunter in extreme Southwest Mitchell County.

Began near Ash Grove (39.1700, -98.4500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F4 Sedgwick County 6 dead F1 Barton County F1 Reno County F1 Sumner County F1 Marion County F0 Rice County F0 Saline County F0 Ellsworth County F0 McPherson County F0 Butler County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5690021. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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