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EF0 tornado in Finney County, Kansas

Tornado May 27, 2015 · Finney County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

3.4 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 tornado moved slowly and made a fish hook type of loop. There was mostly grass land in this area.

The wider storm

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

Began near Kalvesta (38.1711, -100.3317).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Haskell County EF0 Lane County EF0 Lane County EF0 Lane County EF0 Lane County EF0 Lane County EF0 Gray County EF0 Finney County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 586973. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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