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EF1 tornado in Edwards County, Kansas

Tornado October 12, 2021 · Edwards County, Kansas

EF1
Rating
6.3 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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.

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

This was a qlcs tornado.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms developed along a boundary over eastern Colorado and pushed east northeast into the CWA late evening and lasted through the early morning hours. With ample low level moisture with the southeast wind flow at the surface, instability was very high over 3000 J/kg. Moderate shear and steep mid level lapse rates lead to large hail and damaging winds for the biggest threat with a handful of QLCS short lived tornadoes.

Began near Centerview (37.7630, -99.2557).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Haskell CountyEF1 Gray CountyEF1 Ford CountyEF1 Hodgeman CountyEF1 Ford CountyEF1 Ford CountyEF1 Kiowa CountyEF1 Edwards CountyEFU Kiowa County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 991614. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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