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Tornado in Meade County, Kansas

Tornado May 17, 2019 · Meade County, Kansas

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Not rated
29.6 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$500K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado moved into Clark County at 1943 LST.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed in the panhandle of Oklahoma and up into southwest Kansas during the early evening along a dryline. Storms struggled to develop all afternoon due to warm air aloft but once they did form explosive growth was realized. Several long tracked and strong tornadoes occurred with the strongest storms.

Began near Fowler Arpt (37.3497, -100.1384).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 835972. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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