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EF1 tornado in Meade County, Kansas

Tornado March 28, 2007 · Meade County, Kansas

EF1
Rating
13.5 mi
Whole path
125 yd
Path width
$78K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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 damaged a shed and some trees west of Fowler and a pivot irrigation sprinkler northwest of Fowler. The tornado moved into Gray county at 752 PM CDT.

The wider storm

Major tornado outbreak and severe weather swept across parts of western Kansas. Fortunately, there were no injuries or fatalities despite major destruction.

Began near Fowler (37.3800, -100.2546).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Hodgeman CountyEF1 Gray CountyEF1 Ford CountyEF0 Meade CountyEF0 Hamilton CountyEF0 Ford CountyEF0 Meade County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 24157. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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