F1 tornado in Grant County, Kansas

Tornado October 26, 2006 · Grant County, Kansas

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This small tornado damaged a shed and barn.

The wider storm

A major, perhaps once-in-a-lifetime, outbreak of tornadoes occurred across the area as a strong upper level low moved across the area. Despite temperatures in the 50s, low-topped super cell thunderstorms were able to generate 28 tornadoes.

Began near Ulysses (37.6100, -101.4500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 3206. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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