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F1 tornado in Neosho County, Kansas

Tornado April 21, 2005 · Neosho County, Kansas

Rating

7.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$15K

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

One frame house was partially unroofed and one barn destroyed. Tornado crossed the Neosho/Crawford county line, 5 miles southeast of St. Paul. The tornado lifted one mile east of the Neosho/Crawford county line.

Began near South Mound (37.4167, -95.2000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Neosho County F0 Labette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5443281. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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