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EF0 tornado in Ellsworth County, Kansas

Tornado May 1, 2018 · Ellsworth County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The supercell thunderstorms produced a brief tornado touchdown in an open field.

The wider storm

A series of severe thunderstorms and a few supercells moved east across central Kansas

and along Interstate 70, during the late afternoon and evening hours of May 1st, 2018. The strongest supercell thunderstorms produced very large hail up to 4 inches in diameter. A couple of tornadoes were produced by one strong supercell thunderstorm, the first touched down just south of Interstate 70, seven miles north of Ellsworth, and the second touched down, 3 miles north of Glendale, or 7 miles northwest of Salina, Kansas. Damage from the tornadoes was minimal, however, significant damage occurred due to the very large hail.

Began near Ellsworth (38.8360, -98.2405).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Saline County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 744054. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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