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EF0 tornado in Doniphan County, Kansas

Tornado October 24, 2021 · Doniphan County, Kansas

EF0

Rating

4.3 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

This tornado developed west of Kansas Highway 7 tracking NE across Doniphan County, KS before dissipating across US36 northwest of Troy, KS.

The wider storm

As a line of thunderstorms, with embedded supercells moved through northeast Kansas, a tornado formed near Bendena, Kansas and moved across Highway 36, just west of Troy. This tornado remained over largely rural areas and damage was pretty minor.

Began near Moray (39.7587, -95.1728).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 990007. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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