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EF1 tornado in Stafford County, Kansas

Tornado May 26, 2008 · Stafford County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$65K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

EF1 damage was done to trees and a pivot irrigation sprinkler.

The wider storm

The final severe weather outbreak produced from the slow moving upper level disturbance produced hail and a few tornadoes.

Began near Macksville (37.9808, -98.9549).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Pratt County EF0 Kiowa County EF0 Pratt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 109736. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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