EF2 tornado in Stafford County, Kansas
Tornado May 5, 2007 · Stafford County, Kansas
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Kiowa County → Edwards County → Pratt County → Stafford County → Stafford County → Pawnee County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 880 yards (0.50 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
This tornado did EF2 damage to farms, trees and pivot irrigation sprinklers. It was very large in size. It eventually moved into Pawnee county at 1905 CST.
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 Macksville Smith Arp (37.8260, -98.9950).
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 36015. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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