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F1 tornado in Gray County, Kansas

Tornado May 26, 1996 · Gray County, Kansas

Rating

38.0 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

$2.9M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Haskell County → Gray County → Gray County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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.

The wider storm

Supercell cycled once again. Dairy farm heavily damaged with 32 head of cattle injured or killed...6 sprinklers damaged or destroyed...trees uprooted...power poles snapped.

Began near Cimarron (37.8800, -100.3500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5572638. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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