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EF1 tornado in Gove County, Kansas

Tornado May 22, 2008 · Gove County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

8.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A tornado moved across rural eastern Gove county during the late afternoon and produced EF1 damage at a home on Road O before dissipating. Severe roof damage occurred and several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed.

The wider storm

A series of intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the area during the afternoon and early evening hours. Long-track tornadoes, flash flooding, large hail and damaging winds were reported across much of northwest Kansas into extreme southern Nebraska. Eleven tornadoes were verified by storm chasers and damage surveys.

Began near Gove (38.7879, -100.1931).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Sheridan County EF1 Sheridan County EF1 Decatur County EF1 Decatur County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Sheridan County EF0 Gove County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 102943. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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