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EF1 tornado in Cherokee County, Kansas

Tornado July 12, 2010 · Cherokee County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

2.8 mi

Path length

60 yd

Path width

$125K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 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

A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down with estimated winds of 90 mph. The tornado tracked east southeast along a broken path approximately three miles in length with a maximum path width of 60 yards. The tornado uprooted and snapped several large trees, blew over two large grain bins, heavily damaged two well constructed out buildings, and damaged one home.

The wider storm

A supercell thunderstorm moved across portions of extreme southeast Kansas producing an EF-1 tornado in Cherokee County. The storm developed along a remnant surface boundary in the wake of previous storms during the day.

Began near Melrose (37.0276, -94.9406).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 252028. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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