TornadoLookup

Home / Kansas / Graham

EF1 tornado in Graham County, Kansas

Tornado May 23, 2008 · Graham County, Kansas

EF1
Rating
14.0 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

One half mile of power poles were broken on an E-W section road northwest of Morland. Time of tornado development and dissipation estimated from Doppler radar.

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 Studley (39.2776, -100.1700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Gove CountyEF2 Gove CountyEF1 Gove CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Gove CountyEF0 Wichita CountyEF0 Sheridan CountyEF0 Sheridan County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 106592. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.