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EF3 tornado in Ness County, Kansas

Tornado March 28, 2007 · Ness County, Kansas

EF3

Rating

29.1 mi

Whole path

1,320 yd

Path width

$535K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,320 yards (0.75 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF3 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF3 is severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, consistent with estimated gusts of 136–165 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 originated in Hodgeman county and entered Ness county at 925 PM. This large tornado destroyed or heavily damaged 5 homes in Ness county. Hundreds of power poles were broken along with 7 pivot irrigation sprinklers and lots of damage to trees. There were also at least 20 head of cattle dead from this tornado in Ness county.

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 Laird (38.2613, -100.0437).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Meade County EF1 Gray County EF1 Ford County EF0 Meade County EF0 Hamilton County EF0 Ford County EF0 Meade County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 24209. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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