Tornado, Thomas
- When
- July 23, 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County, 4 mi W of Colby
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -101.120
Tornado in Kansas, July 23, 1996
BRIEF TORNADO OVER OPEN COUNTRY BETWEEN HIGHWAY 24 AND INTERSTATE 70 MOVING SOUTH.
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 GLD wrote it up.
BRIEF TORNADO OVER OPEN COUNTRY BETWEEN HIGHWAY 24 AND INTERSTATE 70 MOVING SOUTH.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:34 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
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- Flash Flood in Texas, July 23, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, July 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 23, 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: 5558748.