F0 tornado in Ford County, Kansas

Tornado October 26, 2006 · Ford County, Kansas

Rating

3.3 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

There were two on the ground at the same time. The other was across highway 283. There was a tremendous amount of dirt and tumble weeds in the air with this tornado that did not strike any structures.

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 Bloom (37.4800, -99.7800).

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 3222. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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