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EF1 tornado in Gove County, Kansas

Tornado May 23, 2008 · Gove County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

5.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Gove County → Sheridan County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

KAKE-TV relayed this tornado report. This tornado damaged utility poles and trees as it moved northeast from Gove into southern Sheridan county.

The wider storm

Intense supercell thunderstorms moved north across the region during the afternoon and evening hours producing 10 tornadoes, including an F4 tornado just SW of Quinter. Extremely heavy rainfall also resulted in flooding in many areas. Many of these thunderstorms occurred in the same areas as the storms the previous day.

Began near Quinter (39.1112, -100.2406).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Gove County EF2 Gove County EF1 Graham County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Gove County EF0 Wichita County EF0 Sheridan County EF0 Sheridan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 103695. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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