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F2 tornado in Republic County, Kansas

Tornado June 22, 2003 · Republic County, Kansas

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

450 yd

Path width

$80K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 450 yards (0.26 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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 struck 3 miles northeast of Republic and moved northeast 4 miles and destroyed a house in its path before it dissipated near the Nebraska border.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed over Republic county the evening of the 22nd and persisted into the early morning hours of the 23rd. Numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds along with several tornadoes (discussed separately) were the result. The persistance of the thunderstorms in the same location led to flash flooding in Republic County as well as the Republican River to flood and do considerable crop damage.

Began near Republic (39.9500, -97.7833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Republic County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5364209. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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