EF0 tornado in Ford County, Kansas

Tornado May 24, 2016 · Ford County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

5.6 mi

Whole path

90 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 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

There were intermittent needle condensation tornadoes, several times with two at the same time underneath the mesocyclone. For sake of an argument, the two needles will considered a multiple vortex since they were associated with the same apparent meso.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms erupted during the late afternoon ahead of a dry line. Numerous tornado producing supercell thunderstorms were observed. Dodge City, although with parts damaged by a tornado, escaped a major disaster as tornadoes near that location moved north and northwest, instead of moving northeast (as dictated by the upper steering winds).

Began near Dodge City (37.6601, -100.0816).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 641026. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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