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EF1 tornado in Kingman County, Kansas

Tornado May 10, 2010 · Kingman County, Kansas

EF1
Rating
1.8 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

Tornado damage was limited to trees.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours of May 10th, 2010, ahead of an approaching dry line and warm front. This dynamic environment coupled with an unstable airmass led to the development of thunderstorms to the west and south of Wichita, Kansas with tornado producing supercells moving across portions of South Central Kansas. Two supercells in particular produced significant damage across portions of Kingman, Sedgwick and Cowley counties with some of the damage classified as EF-2 damage by survey teams.

Began near Norwich (37.5193, -97.8367).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Sumner CountyEF2 Kingman CountyEF1 Sedgwick CountyEF1 Cowley CountyEF1 Cowley CountyEF0 Kingman CountyEF0 Elk County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 220287. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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