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F3 tornado in Finney County, Kansas

Tornado May 16, 1995 · Finney County, Kansas

Rating

10.0 mi

Path length

800 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Although damage was F1, this tornado was rated higher based on observation and video. Damage was done to two golf courses, a few house roofs, power lines, and one overturned tractor-semitrailer at the dying stage of the tornado.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10323396. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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