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EF0 tornado in Ellsworth County, Kansas

Tornado June 11, 2008 · Ellsworth County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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

Brief tornado touchdown in open country, knocked down 13 power poles and downed a few tree limbs.

The wider storm

Supercell thunderstorms erupted along a strong cold front across Central Kansas. The supercell storms produced destructive hail and damaging winds, along with tornadoes across Central, Kansas. A few strong tornadoes touched down just south of Salina, Kansas. The supercells would continue to track to the northeast and eventually produce the tornadoes that would hit Chapman, Kansas and Manhattan, Kansas.

Began near Lorraine (38.5677, -98.3473).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Saline County EF1 Barton County EF0 Ellsworth County EF0 Barton County EF0 Barton County EF0 Barton County EF0 Saline County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 94890. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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