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EF1 tornado in Saline County, Kansas

Tornado April 14, 2012 · Saline County, Kansas

EF1
Rating
15.8 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

All surrounding buildings destroyed with sheet metal debris lofted and tossed northeast into a wheat field. Hay baler rolled over on its side. The roof was lifted off the house with major structural cracks visible on interior walls and ceiling through out the house, siding was striped from home in a few areas along with several puncture holes from flying debris. A jagged piece of wood lodged into side of home. This tornado moved into Ottawa county which is Topeka's responsibility.

The wider storm

A significant severe weather outbreak with several damaging long track tornadoes occurred. The strongest tornado moved through portions of central Kansas and produced EF-4 damage at one home stead. Two other tornadoes touched down producing EF-3 damage in south central Kansas.

Began near New Cambria (38.8920, -97.5020).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Rice CountyEF3 Sumner CountyEF3 Rice CountyEF3 Sedgwick CountyEF1 McPherson CountyEF1 Harper CountyEF1 Marion CountyEF1 Sumner CountyEF1 Butler CountyEF1 Ellsworth CountyEF0 Barton CountyEF0 Kingman CountyEF0 Russell CountyEF0 Russell CountyEF0 Russell CountyEF0 Saline CountyEF0 Kingman CountyEF0 Reno CountyEF0 Saline CountyEF0 Butler CountyEF0 Butler CountyEF0 Butler CountyEF0 Kingman County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 366405. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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