EF3 tornado in Kiowa County, Kansas
Tornado May 18, 2025 · Kiowa County, Kansas
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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
A NWS storm survey confirmed reports of a tornado. Some damage included broken power poles, tree trunk snaped, an irrigation pivot broken and tossed.
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 Greensburg (37.5000, -99.3300).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
10 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256656. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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