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F1 tornado in Meade County, Kansas

Tornado May 15, 2003 · Meade County, Kansas

F1
Rating
2.0 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$300K
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

This tornado took out numerous trees, pivot sprinklers and blew out windows in one structure.

Began near Plains (37.1333, -100.6000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Seward CountyF2 Seward CountyF2 Seward CountyF1 Meade CountyF1 Ford CountyF0 Clark CountyF0 Ford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5359569. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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