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EF1 tornado in Finney County, Kansas

Tornado April 29, 2009 · Finney County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$225K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 was a landspout that was occurring west of a bigger tornado that went through a cattle dairy. This landspout damaged 3 pivot irrigation sprinklers as it moved southwest.

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 (37.7986, -100.8833).

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 168571. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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