EF0 tornado in Ellis County, Kansas
Tornado May 28, 2019 · Ellis County, Kansas
EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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
Brief landspout tornado.
The wider storm
A dry line helped initiate thunderstorms.
Began near Pfeifer (37.7582, -99.3135).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 837212. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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