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F1 tornado in Jefferson County, Kansas

Tornado May 11, 2000 · Jefferson County, Kansas

Rating

24.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$2.7M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

A tornado touched down just north of Williamstown and moved east until it crossed into Leavenworth county at 2040 cst. Windows were blown out of a house north of Williamstown. East of Williamstown it struck a farmstead where 2 homes were damaged, 5 pole barns destroyed and 2 others damaged. Metal from an outbuilding was carried 100 feet and hung in a tree 10 feet above ground.

Began near Williamstown (39.0667, -95.3333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5142405. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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