EF0 tornado in Jackson County, Kansas

Tornado May 21, 2019 · Jackson County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

12.6 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

This segment of the tornado track moved through rural southern Jackson County doing damage to trees along a path that ended in southern parts of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation.

The wider storm

Supercell t-storms developed quickly along an arc from north central east southeast through northeast Kansas during the late afternoon and early evening on Tuesday May 21st. The supercells occurred in an environment conducive to rapid low level rotation and tornado formation. At least 6 tornadoes were documented between 4pm and 9 pm during that evening. Some were longer track tornadoes with the strongest being rated an EF3.

Began near Delia (39.2150, -95.8890).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Nemaha County EF2 Jackson County EF1 Dickinson County EF0 Nemaha County EFU Dickinson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 818315. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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