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Public Information Statement - Correction
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
633 PM CDT Mon May 20 2024

...NWS Damage Survey for 05/19/2024 Squall Line Tornado Event...

.Overview...
Shortly after 10 PM CDT, a severe squall line, with a history of
producing damaging wind gusts, began to move into the western
side of the Kansas City Metro. As this line advanced and lifted
east-northeast across Johnson County Kansas, two distinct and
brief embedded circulations developed. The first of these occurred
in northwestern Johnson County, in far western Shawnee, KS,
resulting in a path of enhanced straight line winds and a brief
EF-1 tornado. The second circulation began south of I-435 near
Johnson County Community College and resulted in a sporadic
path of straight line wind damage before organizing and developing
a brief EF-1 tornado as it crossed through the west and northwest
side of Prairie Village, KS.

.School Track_05-19-2024...

Rating:                 EF1
Estimated Peak Wind:    110 mph
Path Length /statute/:  1.75 miles
Path Width /maximum/:   105 yards
Fatalities:             0
Injuries:               0

Start Date:             05/19/2024
Start Time:             10:31 PM CDT
Start Location:         2 WNW Shawnee / Johnson County / KS
Start Lat/Lon:          39.0153 / -94.8435

End Date:               05/19/2024
End Time:               10:36 PM CDT
End Location:           1 WSW Holliday / Johnson County / KS
End Lat/Lon:            39.0354 / -94.8262

Survey Summary:
Most notable damage was to school concession stand and
administrative building near the track and football field of Mill
Valley High School. Debris from this area was carried a few
neighborhoods away. In one of the neighborhoods, there was roof
damage to two homes with loss of roof decking on the corner of one
home. Most of the damage was to trees with large trunks snapped
higher up in the tree, some trees were uprooted though they were
evergreens with shallow root systems or the tree was beginning to
rot at the base. Debris was in an overall convergent pattern.

.Prairie Village...

Rating:                 EF1
Estimated Peak Wind:    95 mph
Path Length /statute/:  2.72 miles
Path Width /maximum/:   150 yards
Fatalities:             0
Injuries:               0

Start Date:             05/19/2024
Start Time:             10:39 PM CDT
Start Location:         1 ENE Overland Park / Johnson County / KS
Start Lat/Lon:          38.9881 / -94.6574

End Date:               05/19/2024
End Time:               10:45 PM CDT
End Location:           Fairway / Johnson County / KS
End Lat/Lon:            39.0173 / -94.6262

Survey Summary:
Preliminary results of a NWS Damage Survey have confirmed an EF-
1 Tornado occurred Sunday Night, May 19th, 2024 in northeastern
Johnson County Kansas. Much of the path was EF-0 Damage, with a
pocket of EF-1 Damage with max winds around 95 MPH. The tornado
began near the western edge of Prairie Village Kansas, near 79th
and Lamar Ave around 10:39 PM CDT. It continued northeast through
Prairie Village toward Fairway KS and ending around 10:45 PM CDT
on the western edge of Mission Hills.

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EF Scale: The Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes into the
following categories:

EF0.....65 to 85 mph
EF1.....86 to 110 mph
EF2.....111 to 135 mph
EF3.....136 to 165 mph
EF4.....166 to 200 mph
EF5.....>200 mph

NOTE:
The information in this statement is preliminary and subject to
change pending final review of the events and publication in
NWS Storm Data.


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