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EF1 tornado in Comanche County, Kansas

Tornado June 14, 2009 · Comanche County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

3.7 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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 tornado was just south of the Comanche/Kiowa county line as it first moved east and then southeast. Towards the end it caused damage to a farm. A roof was blown off a lean-to, tin was stripped of a barn and a central air unit was removed from a house and destroyed.

The wider storm

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

Began near Wilmore (37.3810, -99.2323).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Haskell County EF1 Haskell County EF0 Haskell County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 186012. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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