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EF0 tornado in Butler County, Kansas

Tornado May 7, 2019 · Butler County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

Damage to trees were noted along the path.

The wider storm

A stalled frontal boundary was draped across portions of Kansas during the day on May 7th, 2019 ahead of an approaching storm system. Widespread showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall developed across the area. These storms inundated areas that were already saturated from recent rainfall resulting in widespread flooding across south central Kansas.

Significant flash flooding occurred during the evening and overnight of May 7th, 2019 into the early morning hours of May 8th. The most significant flash flooding occurred during the early morning hours of May 8th, when areas southeast of Wichita picked up between seven and ten inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period. Numerous water rescues took place across Mulvane, Augusta, Wellington and Rose Hill. In addition, several miles of the Kansas Turnpike was closed south of Mulvane due to the Slate Creek reaching record levels. Closing this much of the Kansas Turnpike due to flooding hasn't happened in over 30 years.

Began near Haverhill (37.6300, -96.9200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 816515. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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