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EF0 tornado in Butler County, Kansas

Tornado May 27, 2016 · Butler County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Very brief touchdown of 15 seconds over open country.

The wider storm

Another round of late May storms produced very strong winds and damaging hail to central Kansas on both the 26th and 27th. Very large hail up to baseball size was noted along with a significant amount of flooding due to the heavy rains. These rains prolonged the localized flooding for a few days and also caused river flooding.

Began near Haverhill (37.6499, -96.8398).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 640097. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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