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EF0 tornado in Gray County, Kansas

Tornado May 27, 2015 · Gray County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

This was a brief and apparent weak tornado.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed in a very unstable atmosphere aided by a short wave trough and residual outflow boundaries.

Began near Cimarron Arpt (37.9812, -100.3466).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Haskell CountyEF0 Lane CountyEF0 Lane CountyEF0 Lane CountyEF0 Lane CountyEF0 Lane CountyEF0 Finney CountyEF0 Finney County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 586972. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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