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EF1 tornado in Pawnee County, Kansas

Tornado May 11, 2014 · Pawnee County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

3.3 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

This was a multiple vortex tornado. A sprinkler irrigation sprinkler was overturned along with some tree damage.

The wider storm

A strong jet streak moved out across the plains and helped lift a very unstable airmass in place. Storms were along the dry line and also discrete cells ahead of the dry line.

Began near Frizell (38.1383, -99.2157).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Edwards County EF0 Stafford County EF0 Pratt County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 529207. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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