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Tornado in Kiowa County, Colorado

Tornado May 9, 2017 · Kiowa County, Colorado

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Not rated

1.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A brief landspout tornado was witnessed by the public. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.

The wider storm

A few marginally severe storms occurred, one producing a brief landspout near Brandon in Kiowa County.

Began near Brandon (38.4563, -102.4502).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 686419. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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