EF1 tornado in Ford County, Kansas

Tornado May 24, 2016 · Ford County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

4.6 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Damage was done to a trailer house and outbuilding as well as to trees. The tornado passed into Hodgeman County at 18:17 CST.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms erupted during the late afternoon ahead of a dry line. Numerous tornado producing supercell thunderstorms were observed. Dodge City, although with parts damaged by a tornado, escaped a major disaster as tornadoes near that location moved north and northwest, instead of moving northeast (as dictated by the upper steering winds).

Began near (ddc)dodge City Arpt (37.9060, -100.0252).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 641264. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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