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EF1 tornado in Finney County, Kansas

Tornado April 29, 2009 · Finney County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

6.4 mi

Whole path

330 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 330 yards (0.19 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado started out moving southeast but then curved back to the southwest towards the end of it's life. It unfortunately went through a cattle dairy and killed over 200 head as a tremendous amount of tin churned through the air. There was one male that received injury when a door blew in. There were 8 pivot irrigation sprinklers damaged or destroyed, along with power poles, trees, roof and window damage.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms, an one in particular (which started as a LP Supercell), produced very large hail and 5 tornadoes. There were also numerous gustnadoes and downburts reported.

Began near Plymell (37.8262, -100.8670).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 168570. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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