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Tornado in Hamilton County, Kansas

Tornado August 3, 2025 · Hamilton County, Kansas

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Not rated

0.6 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

Storm chaser video showed a brief tornado last for a couple minutes. No damage was found.

The wider storm

An upper-level trough moved over western Kansas early in the morning. Correlating with a PVU maximum and left exit region of the jet aloft, plenty of dynamical support was present for strong storms to develop producing all hazards. This included a weak and brief tornado, 4 inch hail, and 85 mph winds. This manifested in a couple supercells and a small bowing MCS moving southward across SW Kansas.

Began near Medway (38.2331, -101.8059).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1288682. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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