EF1 tornado in Trego County, Kansas
Tornado May 23, 2008 · Trego County, Kansas
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Trego County → Ellis County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
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 the National Weather Service wrote
Power poles and trees were damaged by this tornado. It moved into Ellis county at 20:47 CDT.
The wider storm
An anonymously strong upper level system allowed everything to come together at the surface to produced what is perhaps the biggest tornado outbreak to ever occur in the Dodge City CWA! Fifty-five tornadoes were documented during that afternoon and evening! Some of the tornadoes were very large and damaging. The character of the supercell thunderstorms that day had similarities to the storms that produced the Greensburg tornado a little over a year after. In fact there was one tornado that was just as large and perhaps could have been just as damaging that was headed towards the small Kiowa county town but fortunately turned and dissipated.
Began near Riga (38.8637, -99.6139).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
50 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 110711. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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