Tornadoes · United States · Kansas · 2005

F0 tornado, Ellis, Kansas, June 9, 2005

Name: F0 tornado, Ellis, Kansas, June 9, 2005
Start: 2005-06-09T23:58:00.000Z
Location: Ellis, Kansas

This F0 tornado ran 1.2 miles across Ellis County on June 9, 2005, touching down at 6:58 PM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F0
Date: June 9, 2005
Touchdown: 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Path length: 1.2 miles (1.9 km)
Path width: 50 yards (46 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Ellis County
Touchdown point: 38.980, -99.550
Lift-off point: 39.000, -99.520
Record number: 967

What the Weather Service recorded

This tornado did not hit anything.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

24 minutes of warning. NWS DDC issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:34 UTC, 24 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:30 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
23:34 UTC	00:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	DDC
00:31 UTC	01:02 UTC	Tornado Warning	DDC

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 21:04 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 9, 2:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
225 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...
PRIMARY CONCERN IS SHORT TERM SEVERE STORMS...

OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM CENTRAL OK INTO WESTERN KANSAS
BETWEEN GCK AND DDC WITH LLJ ALONG IT AND UPPER LEVEL JET FROM SW TO
CROSS IT THIS EVENING. FROM MORNING SOUNDING 94 OVER 64 GIVES OVER
5K J/KG AND BACKED LOW LEVEL FLOW ON EAST SIDE OF OFB PRODUCES A
VERY HEALTHY SUBCLOUD LAYER HODOGRAPH. WE SHOULD EASILY GET A FEW
SUPERCELLS IN CONVERGENCE ALONG THE OFB AND THE TORNADO THREAT COULD
BE FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT AT LEAST EARLY ON IN THE STORMS DEVELOPMENT.
THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH HOWEVER LAGS THE SYSTEM A BIT
TO THE SOUTHWEST AND WILL PROBABLY NOT PRODUCE ANY SIGNIFICANT
FORCING UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING. BY THEN WE SHOULD SEE A LOT OF
CONVECTION DEVELOP INTO A MULTICELLULAR CLUSTER ALONG AND NORTH OF
THE COLD FRONT IN NORTHWEST KANSAS. BY TOMORROW, THE FRONT SHOULD
SINK SOUTH INTO THE AREA AND WE MAY WELL SEE THUNDERSTORMS OFF AND
ON THROUGHOUT THE DAY WITH ANOTHER MULTICELLULAR BEAST FORMING OVER
MY CWA AND JUST EAST OF THE SURFACE LOW TOMORROW EVENING. DIDNT
MAKE A LOT OF CHANGES IN THE GRIDS EXCEPT TO TRIM HIGHS TOMORROW AND
ADJUST POPS TO FIT THINKING ABOVE. AS I TYPE THIS WE HAVE
COORDINATED WITH SPC ON A TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF MY CWA THROUGH
04Z.

DAYS 3-7...
THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT OUT THROUGH 84 HOURS.
THE LATEST ECMWF FROM 09/00Z SUPPORTS HAVING A SHORT BREAK IN PRECIP
CHANCES SUNDAY MORNING, BUT BRINGS A LARGE UPPER TROUGH THROUGH
WESTERN KANSAS SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT.  FOR THIS REASON, HAVE
INCREASED POPS INTO THE CHANCE CATEGORY /40E & 30W/ SATURDAY NIGHT,
DOWN TO ZERO SUNDAY MORNING, AND THEN BACK TO 40E/30W SUNDAY
AFTERNOON.  THIS UPPER TROUGH SHOULD BE MOVING THROUGH RAPIDLY, AND
DROPPED POPS TO 20 SUNDAY NIGHT.  HOPEFULLY, BY MONDAY, THE CHANCE
FOR POPS WILL DIMINISH, AS WE ARE BETWEEN UPPER IMPULSES BY THAT
TIME.  BOTH THE GFS AND DGEX BRING AN UPPER LEVEL LOW, ALTHOUGH NOT
TOO TIGHT OR DEEP, THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS ON WEDNESDAY.  SO
INTRODUCED A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR TRW- WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AND THEN
AGAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A SECOND LOBE OF UPPER
VORTICITY ROTATES THROUGH.  AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES, KEPT THE LOWER
MAX TEMPS GOING FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY, DUE TO AFTER AFFECTS OF THE
COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE SUNDAY.   THEN, WE SHOULD BEGIN SLOWLY WARMING
UP AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS IN OVER THE ROCKIES AND WE GET
INTO NORTHWESTERLY DOWN SLOPE AFFECTS.  WARMED MAX TEMPS BACK UP TO
THE 90S BY WEDNESDAY AND KEPT THEM THERE.  AS FOR LOWS, MOSTLY MID
50S NW TO LOWER 60S SE MONDAY AND TUESDAY, RISING TO NEAR 60NW TO
UPPER 60S SE BY THURSDAY.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DDC  62  83  63  81 /  30  60  80  30
GCK  58  81  59  80 /  30  60  80  20
EHA  57  81  60  85 /  20  60  80  20
LBL  61  82  62  84 /  30  60  80  20
HYS  59  83  61  80 /  30  60  80  40
P28  66  85  67  86 /  20  60  80  60

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.KS...NONE.

&&

JOHNSON/BURKE

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 11:00 AM CDT, 7 hours 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1100 AM CDT THU JUN 9 2005

KSZ030-031-043>046-065-066-101000-
ELLIS-LANE-NESS-PAWNEE-RUSH-SCOTT-STAFFORD-TREGO-
1100 AM CDT THU JUN 9 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR COUPLED WITH A COLD FRONT AND THUNDERSTORM
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM LAST NIGHTS STORMS TO OUR EAST WILL PRODUCE
THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS.
THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INTO A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND MOVE EAST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS KANSAS.
WHILE THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE A LITTLE HAIL, THE MAIN DANGER WILL BE
FROM TORRENTIAL RAINS AND STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS TONIGHT.

ALONG AND NORTH OF A SCOTT CITY TO NESS CITY, LARNED AND ST JOHN
IS THE AREA MOST THREATENED BY THESE STORMS TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD POSSIBILITY FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT,
AND THEN AGAIN ON SUNDAY, ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

KSZ061>064-074>081-084>090-101000-
BARBER-CLARK-COMANCHE-EDWARDS-FINNEY-FORD-GRANT-GRAY-HAMILTON-
HASKELL-HODGEMAN-KEARNY-KIOWA-MEADE-MORTON-PRATT-SEWARD-STANTON-
STEVENS-
1100 AM CDT (1000 AM MDT) THU JUN 9 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THE BEST CHANCE OF
STORMS WILL BE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM LIBERAL TO DODGE CITY TO
LARNED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD POSSIBILITY FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT,
AND THEN AGAIN ON SUNDAY, ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

A FEW STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

JOHNSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
554 PM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0530 PM     HAIL             12 WNW FOWLER           37.45N 100.40W
06/09/2005  1.75 INCH        MEADE              KS   PUBLIC

&&

01

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:12 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
612 PM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0602 PM     TORNADO          2 NW TREGO CENTER       38.90N 99.93W
06/09/2005                   TREGO              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT 602 PM AND AGAIN AT 605 PM.
            ALSO REPORTED BY KSNW STORM SPOTTER.

&&

01

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:18 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
618 PM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0615 PM     TORNADO          1 N TREGO CENTER        38.89N 99.90W
06/09/2005                   TREGO              KS   NWS EMPLOYEE

            LARGE CONDENSATION FUNNEL WITH DEBRIS CLOUD OBSERVED

&&

01

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:31 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
631 PM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     HAIL             WAKEENEY                39.02N 99.88W
06/09/2005  1.75 INCH        TREGO              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

01

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:38 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
638 PM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0634 PM     TORNADO          2 S OGALLAH             38.95N 99.73W
06/09/2005                   TREGO              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

01

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:52 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
652 PM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0646 PM     TORNADO          2 SW FOWLER             37.36N 100.22W
06/09/2005                   MEADE              KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            ALSO REPORTED BY STORM CHASER.

&&
TORNADO ALSO REPORTED BY KAKE TELEVISION TEAM.

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The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Dodge City, (KDDC), 12:00Z

12.0 hours before the tornado, 139 km from the path. June 9, 2005.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 3031 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 9.1
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Dodge City, (KDDC), 00:00Z

0.0 hours before the tornado, 139 km from the path. June 10, 2005.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1692 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2633 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6
0-3 km lapse rate: 7.9 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:58 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
21:05 UTC	TORNADO	5 Nne Saint Peter	Graham, KS
21:25 UTC	TORNADO	5 Wsw Hill City	Graham, KS
21:50 UTC	HAIL 1.75	3 S Hill City	Graham, KS
22:01 UTC	TORNADO	Damar	Rooks, KS	MULTIPLE TORNADOES VISIBLE
22:05 UTC	HAIL 1	Damar	Rooks, KS	TORRENTIAL RAIN, FOUR MILE WIDE WALL CLOUD SIGHTED.
22:05 UTC	TORNADO	2 Sw Damar	Graham, KS
22:10 UTC	HAIL 0.75	Trego Center	Trego, KS
22:14 UTC	HAIL 1	5 N Damar	Rooks, KS
22:15 UTC	HAIL 1.25	Hill City	Graham, KS
22:20 UTC	HAIL 1	Damar	Rooks, KS	4 MILE WIDE WALL CLOUD SPOTTED, TORRENTIAL RAIN REPORTED.
22:20 UTC	HAIL 1	Damar	Rooks, KS	TORRENTIAL RAIN, FOUR MILE WIDE WALL CLOUD SPOTTED.
22:20 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Damar	Rooks, KS
22:20 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Damar	Rooks, KS
22:20 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Damar	Rooks, KS
22:20 UTC	TORNADO	Palco	Rooks, KS
22:30 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Damar	Rooks, KS	APPARENT REAR FLANK DOWNDRAFT BETWEEN PALCO AND DAMAR SNAPPED OFF POWER POLES.
22:30 UTC	TORNADO	3 S Webster State Park	Rooks, KS	A FARM WAS DESTROYED...INCLUDING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE FARM HOUSE.
22:35 UTC	TORNADO	5 Nw Zurich	Rooks, KS	DISTANCE ESTIMATED
22:35 UTC	TORNADO	6 Se Stockton	Rooks, KS	TORNADO W/DEBRIS REPORTED
22:35 UTC	TORNADO	6 Sw Stockton	Rooks, KS	TORNADO W/DEBRIS REPORTED
22:39 UTC	HAIL 1.75	4 W Nicodemus	Graham, KS
22:40 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Bogue	Graham, KS
22:51 UTC	TORNADO	6 N Zurich	Rooks, KS
22:54 UTC	TORNADO	2 Sw Stockton	Rooks, KS	2 RAIN WRAPPED TORNADOES SPOTTED
22:58 UTC	TORNADO	Stockton	Rooks, KS	DEPUTY REPORTS TORNADO ON NORTH SIDE OF STOCKTON
23:02 UTC	TORNADO	2 Nw Trego Center	Trego, KS	BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT 602 PM AND AGAIN AT 605 PM. ALSO REPORTED BY KSNW STORM SPOTTER.
23:05 UTC	TORNADO	1 N Trego Center	Trego, KS	TORNADO DAMAGE OVER A WIDE PATH WITH SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE ROOF OF A HOME ALONG HIGHWAY 283.
23:15 UTC	TORNADO	1 N Trego Center	Trego, KS	LARGE CONDENSATION FUNNEL WITH DEBRIS CLOUD OBSERVED
23:18 UTC	HAIL 1	Wakeeney	Trego, KS
23:25 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Wakeeney	Trego, KS
23:34 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Ogallah	Trego, KS
23:41 UTC	TORNADO	4 E Ogallah	Trego, KS	THREE SEMI TRUCKS BLOWN OVER ON THE WESTBOUND SIDE OF I70. HIGHWAY SIGN TWISTED.
23:58 UTC	TORNADO	Ogallah	Trego, KS	RELAYED BY GOODLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
00:12 UTC	TORNADO	6 N Ellis	Ellis, KS	REPORTED BY KSNW STORM SPOTTER.
00:14 UTC	TORNADO	Trego Center	Trego, KS	TORNADO NEAR TREGO CENTER.
00:22 UTC	TORNADO	13 W Trego Center	Trego, KS
00:35 UTC	TORNADO	9 W Trego Center	Trego, KS
00:35 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	13 Sse Hill City	Graham, KS	TREE LIMBS 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER KNOCKED DOWN

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

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The other tornadoes of June 9, 2005

36 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 9	6:33 AM CDT	F1	Iberville Parish, LA	0.2	30	$180,000
June 9	4:20 PM CDT	F2	Graham, KS	9.5	400
June 9	4:31 PM CDT	F0	Decatur, KS	1.5	25
June 9	4:45 PM CDT	F0	Decatur, KS	0.8	25
June 9	4:45 PM CDT	F0	Graham, KS	0.3	25
June 9	4:46 PM CDT	F0	Graham, KS	0.6	25
June 9	5:05 PM CDT	F0	Rooks, KS	2.5	40	$30,000
June 9	5:18 PM CDT	F0	Trego, KS	2.0	50
June 9	5:25 PM CDT	F1	Rooks, KS	9.0	60	$300,000
June 9	5:34 PM CDT	F1	Rooks, KS	6.0	90	$300,000
June 9	5:57 PM CDT	F1	Rooks, KS	4.0	50	$300,000
June 9	6:00 PM CDT	F3	Trego, KS	6.0	200
June 9	6:16 PM CDT	F1	Trego, KS	3.5	100
June 9	6:24 PM CDT	F1	Trego, KS	4.4	100
June 9	6:25 PM CDT	F3	Hale, TX	15.0	900	$300,000
June 9	6:27 PM CDT	F0	Pecos, TX	0.5	100
June 9	6:29 PM CDT	F0	Brewster, TX	0.7	100
June 9	6:29 PM CDT	F1	Trego, KS	8.2	100	$3.0 million
June 9	6:38 PM CDT	F0	Meade, KS	1.3	30
June 9	6:40 PM CDT	F0	Winnebago, WI	3.0	40
June 9	6:43 PM CDT	F0	Meade, KS	1.8	25
June 9	6:46 PM CDT	F1	Meade, KS	0.8	20
June 9	6:55 PM CDT	F2	Meade, KS	9.2	200
June 9	6:57 PM CDT	F0	Gove, KS	0.8	50
June 9	7:02 PM CDT	F0	Carson, TX	0.1	25
June 9	7:14 PM CDT	F0	Calumet, WI	0.1	25
June 9	7:14 PM CDT	F0	Trego, KS	1.8	50
June 9	7:15 PM CDT	F0	Ellis, KS	1.8	30
June 9	7:33 PM CDT	F1	Gove, KS	1.5	50
June 9	8:05 PM CDT	F1	Meade, KS	8.0	150
June 9	8:06 PM CDT	F0	Beaver, OK	0.1	25
June 9	8:30 PM CDT	F0	Donley, TX	0.2	30	$10,000
June 9	8:47 PM CDT	F0	Donley, TX	0.1	25
June 9	9:30 PM CDT	F0	Meade, KS	1.0	30
June 9	9:40 PM CDT	F0	Crosby, TX	1.0	50
June 9	10:00 PM CDT	F0	Dickens, TX	1.0	50

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.