EF1 tornado in Kiowa County, Kansas
Tornado May 5, 2007 · Kiowa County, Kansas
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
While doing a storm survey and in the town of Greensburg, this tornado was observed moving rapidly north but west of Greensburg. It did EF1 damage to a barn.
The wider storm
Unbelievably, an outbreak of tornadoes, some very large in size, raked the earth in basically the same area as the day before when Greensburg was nearly completely leveled. Although some of the tornadoes were large and apparently very strong, there was no loss of life on this day. A National Weather Service assessment team was in an area about 30 minutes before a tornado moved through. They also saw one tornado during the storm survey of damage that was produced the day before.
Began near Greensburg (37.5846, -99.3264).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
14 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 36007. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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