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EF1 tornado in Haskell County, Kansas

Tornado June 14, 2009 · Haskell County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

3.7 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 moved rapidly east and then northeast. It damaged the Sublette feeders (grain elevator and equipment) and then overturned 3 pivot sprinklers, damaged trees and other irrigation pipe. The vortex was evident in the crop debris at two locations.

The wider storm

Another disturbance moving across an unstable atmosphere generated severe thunderstorms once again.

Began near Tice (37.5330, -100.7400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Haskell County EF1 Comanche County EF0 Haskell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 185999. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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