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EF2 tornado in Douglas County, Kansas

Tornado May 28, 2019 · Douglas County, Kansas

EF2

Rating

39.8 mi

Whole path

200 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 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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. This tornado did impact vehicles in the path of the tornado resulting in several injuries.

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 Globe (38.7630, -95.5000).

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 816440. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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