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Tornado May 18, 2025 · Pratt County, Kansas

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Not rated
11.9 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width

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

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A storm chaser captured a small satellite tornado off of the large Pratt tornado with pictures and video. No damage was reported or found.

The wider storm

A regional outbreak of tornadoes occurred across portions

of western into south-central Kansas during the afternoon to

evening hours of Sunday 18 May 2025. The first couple of tornadic

supercells occurred near Scott City KS in Scott County during the

late afternoon and progressed northward with both storms generating

EF2 tornadoes and a lone brief EFU tornado. A second tornadic

supercell developed near Dodge City KS in the early evening and

progressed northeast with an EFO tornado occurring near Kinsley KS

in Edwards County and an EF2 tornado near Garfield KS in Pawnee County.

A final long-duration tornadic supercell then formed in the mid

evening hours over Comanche County KS and commenced moving northeast

toward Greensburg KS in Kiowa County, Iuka KS in Pratt County,

north of Preston KS in Pratt County and finally across Stafford

and Reno Counties. This storm generated five EF3 tornadoes along with

several smaller satellite tornadoes. The final count for this day

was 13 tornadoes just within the NWS Dodge City Warning area.

Began near Iuka (37.7190, -98.7440).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Comanche CountyEF3 Pratt CountyEF3 Kiowa CountyEF3 Kiowa CountyEF2 Scott CountyEF2 Scott CountyEF2 Edwards CountyEF1 Kiowa CountyEF0 Edwards CountyEFU Scott County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256270. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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