F3 tornado in Trego County, Kansas

Tornado June 9, 2005 · Trego County, Kansas

Rating

6.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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

Significant damage was done to several farms, outbuildings and trees. One 1500 pound heifer was thrown 1/4 mile. The tornado actually made a loop traveling back west, south then back to the north and it dissipated rather rapidly (from video). Some of the structures were protected in a ravine but still sustained major damage. Several cottonwood trees with six foot diameter trunks were pulled out of the ground. This tornado did high-end F3 damage.

Began near Trego Center (38.9500, -99.7667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Meade County F1 Meade County F1 Trego County F1 Trego County F1 Trego County F1 Meade County F0 Meade County F0 Trego County F0 Meade County F0 Ellis County F0 Trego County F0 Ellis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5462432. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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