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EF1 tornado in Clark County, Kansas

Tornado May 17, 2019 · Clark County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

29.6 mi

Whole path

275 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 275 yards (0.16 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

The tornado moved out of Meade County at 1943 LST and moved into Ford County at 1952 LST. As it crossed Highway 54 it overturned a semi truck but fortunately the driver was not hurt.

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 Minneola (37.3870, -100.0999).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Ford County EF2 Edwards County EF0 Meade County EF0 Clark County EFU Beaver County EFU Pawnee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 835974. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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