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Tornado July 6, 2024 · Rawlins County, Kansas

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Not rated
3.3 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Multiple reports from law enforcement and the public of a tornado southeast of Atwood. No damage was reported along the path as it likely stayed in open fields.

The wider storm

During the afternoon hours, scattered storms developed along the dryline as it moved over Northwest Kansas. One supercell produced an EF-Unknown tornado southeast of Atwood in Rawlins County The Rawlins County Storm and numerous others throughout the remainder of the afternoon produced pea to ping pong ball sized hail across Rawlins, Decatur, Thomas, Sheridan, Logan, and Gove counties. The largest hail fell near the town of Herndon in Rawlins County. The storms also produced damaging wind gusts of 58 to estimated 90 mph with damage to trees and a few overturned semi trucks across Logan, Gove, and Thomas counties.

Began near Achilles (39.7335, -100.9487).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1201315. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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