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EF1 tornado in Haskell County, Kansas

Tornado May 27, 2015 · Haskell County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

2.9 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado did high end EF1 damage to Pivot irrigation sprinklers along with other damage to several outbuildings and eight large grain bins. A semi was flipped and carried into a field.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed in a very unstable atmosphere aided by a short wave trough and residual outflow boundaries.

Began near Sublette (37.5910, -100.9512).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 586966. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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