...DAMAGE SURVEYS INDICATE TEN TORNADOES WEDNESDAY EVENING...
NUMEROUS TORNADOES DEVELOPED AND MOVED RAPIDLY NORTH ACROSS
THE TRI-STATE AREA DURING THE EVENING OF MARCH 28 2007. THE
MAIN AREAS AFFECTED WERE COUNTIES ALONG THE COLORADO BORDER FROM
WEST-CENTRAL KANSAS INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. STORM ASSESSMENT
TEAMS WERE DEPLOYED FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND TO
DETERMINE THE INTENSITIES OF THE TORNADOES. THE TEAMS DETERMINED
THAT A TOTAL OF TEN TORNADOES STRUCK THE COUNTIES OF DECATUR...
SHERMAN...GREELEY...WALLACE...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN KANSAS AND
ACROSS DUNDY COUNTY IN NEBRASKA.
THE STRONGEST OF THE TEN TORNADOES OCCURRED IN EASTERN CHEYENNE
COUNTY KANSAS WITH A DAMAGE TRACK EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST OF BIRD
CITY TO ROUGHLY 10 MILES NORTH OF BIRD CITY. A NUMBER OF HOMESTEADS
SUFFERED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE...GIVING THE TORNADO AN EF2 RATING ON THE
ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE.
AS THE BIRD CITY TORNADO WAS DISSIPATING...ANOTHER TORNADO FORMED
APPROXIMATELY THREE MILES TO THE NORTHEAST AND EVENTUALLY MOVED
NORTH INTO SOUTHERN DUNDY COUNTY NEBRASKA...JUST EAST OF
BENKELMAN. SEVERAL HOMESTEADS WERE IMPACTED AND SIGNIFICANT TREE
DAMAGE OCCURRED AT THE LOCAL GOLF COURSE. THIS TORNADO WAS GIVEN AN
EF1 RATING ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE.
ANOTHER TORNADO GIVEN AN EF1 RATING MOVED NORTH THROUGH GREELEY
COUNTY AND INTENSIFIED AS IT CROSSED INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN
WALLACE COUNTY. THIS TORNADO BADLY DAMAGED THREE VACANT MOBILE HOMES.
OTHER TORNADOES SURVEYED PRODUCED EF0 DAMAGE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
-SOUTH CENTRAL GREELEY COUNTY.
-CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY NEAR SHARON SPRINGS.
-EXTREME WEST CENTRAL GREELEY COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF TOWNER
COLORADO.
-EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF JENNINGS.
-THERE WERE THREE SEPARATE TORNADOES IN EASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY...
EAST OF GOODLAND...AND NEAR AND NORTH OF EDSON.
FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE MAY BE FOUND AT
HTTP://WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV/EFSCALE.
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MENTZER/FLOYD/KRAUSE
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