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EF0 tornado in Osage County, Kansas

Tornado May 28, 2019 · Osage County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

39.8 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injuries

$26.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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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

NWS employees surveyed the track and found damage beginning around 2 miles southeast of Overbrook that continued northeast into Douglas county. The sporadic damage path continued to just east southeast of Lone Star Lake in Douglas County where it merged with a larger circulation that eventually become the long track violent tornado. The Osage county portion only had EF0 damage associated with it.

The wider storm

A high precipitation supercell t-storm developed during the afternoon of May 28th across Lyon County Kansas and tracked northeast through the evening producing several tornadoes. The strongest tornado was an EF4 violent tornado that tracked just south of Lawrence Kansas northeast into Leavenworth county Kansas. No fatalities occurred due to the tornadoes with around 17 injuries reported with most of those associated with vehicles that were chasing the storms.

Began near Overbrook (38.7541, -95.5186).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Osage County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 816436. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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