Tornado, Nemaha
- When
- July 20, 4:03 PM CST
- Where
- Nemaha County, 8 mi S of Centralia
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.620, -96.130
Tornado in Kansas, July 20, 1996
A Pottawatomie County sheriff, a weather spotter and two other eye witnesses reported a brief tornado touchdown in southern Nemaha County.
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
- None recorded
- 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 TOP wrote it up.
A Pottawatomie County sheriff, a weather spotter and two other eye witnesses reported a brief tornado touchdown in southern Nemaha County.
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:03 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
- Hail in South Dakota, July 20, 1996
- Strong Wind in Massachusetts, July 20, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 20, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 20, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 20, 1996
- High Wind in New York, July 20, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 20, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 20, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, July 20, 1996
- Flooding in Pennsylvania, July 20, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, July 20 to 25, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1996Warnings in Kansas, July 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: 5551304.