EF1 tornado in Gray County, Kansas
Tornado November 16, 2015 · Gray County, Kansas
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Gray County → Ford County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This tornado developed on the southeast side of the cyclic supercell tornado that tracked from near Liberal to NNW of Haggard. It damaged a home that had been rebuilt from the May 24th tornado. This tornado moved into Ford county at 19:02.
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 Ensign (37.6301, -100.2329).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 609667. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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