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EF1 tornado in Brown County, Kansas

Tornado June 3, 2014 · Brown County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

2.6 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A brief tornado touched down around 1124 pm CDT just east of Willis and moved to the southeast damaging two homes along a path lifting around 1 mile north of Everest at approximately 1130 pm CDT. Homes exhibited debris fields blown to the south and some debris was blown to the northwest. One home had 2 by 6 boards driven into the east side of the home. Rating was EF1 with winds to around 100 mph.

The wider storm

A supercell thunderstorm moved southeast out of Nebraska and produced one strong tornado in northeast Nemaha county. The supercell storm continued to track southeast and produced another tornado in Brown County.

Began near Willis (39.7204, -95.4660).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Nemaha County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 510332. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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