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F1 tornado in Hayes County, Nebraska

Tornado October 31, 2000 · Hayes County, Nebraska

Rating

9.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$160K

Damage as recorded

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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 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 1 mile west of Hamlet and was intermittently on the ground to 9 miles north of Hamlet. As the tornado moved into Stinking Water Creek bottom 4 miles north northwest of Hamlet a garage was destroyed and several farm outbuilding were damaged. Large cottonwood and evergreen trees were uprooted or snapped off. The tornado then struck a farm 9 miles north of Hamlet destroying a calf shed and doing extensive tree damage before lifting.

Began near Hamlet (40.3833, -101.2500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Custer County F2 Custer County F1 Frontier County F1 Loup County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5158467. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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