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EF1 tornado in Ness County, Kansas

Tornado November 16, 2015 · Ness County, Kansas

EF1
Rating
3.9 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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 snapped tree trunks and small barns and farm outbuildings were destroyed.

The wider storm

An unusually strong November severe weather episode occurred across the region. A very strong upper level low approached with with strong winds aloft. An unusually high amount of moisture and unseasonably unstable airmass were transported north into Kansas. Storms developed along a dry line but quickly moved off the dryline and became supercellular. Large, long tracked and rapidly moving tornadoes occurred along with instances of large and damaging hail.

Began near Laird (38.5343, -99.9980).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Seward CountyEF2 Lane CountyEF2 Gray CountyEF1 Trego CountyEF1 Comanche CountyEF1 Meade CountyEF0 Grant CountyEF0 Finney CountyEF0 Trego County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 609650. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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