Tornado, Rawlins
- When
- August 6, 5:28 PM CST to 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Rawlins County, Herndon to 5 mi S of Herndon
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 39.850, -100.850
Tornado in Kansas, August 6, 1996
TORNADO MOVED EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. TWO POWER POLES WERE TAKEN DOWN 5 SW OF HERNDON.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
TORNADO MOVED EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. TWO POWER POLES WERE TAKEN DOWN 5 SW OF HERNDON. SIX POWER POLES WERE DOWNED 4 MILES SOUTH OF HERNDON.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 6, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 6, 1996
- Tornado in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 6, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 6, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 6, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1996Warnings in Kansas, August 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5558986.