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EF1 tornado in Republic County, Kansas

Tornado June 7, 2022 · Republic County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Damage survey noted damage to main grain elevator in town with a sporadic damage path noted to the southeast to trees limbs with lack of access further southeast unable to determine how much further southeast path occurred. Area primarily fallow field or newly planted corn so few DI to see from ground around end point.

The wider storm

A cluster of storms moved out of Nebraska during the evening of June 7th and evolved into a line of storms that accelerated southeast across central and northeast Kansas. At least 2 small tornadoes occurred along with widespread damaging straight line winds of 60 to 80 mph.

Began near Narka (39.9613, -97.4249).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Marshall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1019385. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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