EF0 tornado in Republic County, Kansas

Tornado May 1, 2018 · Republic County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

8.2 mi

Whole path

125 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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 broad and weak tornado that developed along the leading edge of a bowing line segment. It was witnessed by multiple sources but caused no reported damage.

The wider storm

Supercell T-storms developed across north central Kansas during the late afternoon on May 1. The supercells produced at least 4 documented tornadoes including a strong tornado in Ottawa county near Tescott Kansas. No injuries occurred with any of the storms.

Began near New Tabor (39.9682, -97.6727).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Ottawa County EF1 Cloud County EF1 Clay County EF1 Clay County EF0 Cloud County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 743853. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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