Tornado, Leavenworth
- When
- June 5, 8:41 PM CST to 8:46 PM CST
- Where
- Leavenworth County, 3 mi NW of Tonganoxie
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 39.150, -95.120
Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
A tornado touched down on County Road 30, 3 miles northwest of Tonganoxie. The tornado had winds of 110 to 120 MPH and tracked southeast across 235th ST near Route K 16 knocking down trees and doing moderate damage to homes.
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
- $250,000
- 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 EAX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down on County Road 30, 3 miles northwest of Tonganoxie. The tornado had winds of 110 to 120 MPH and tracked southeast across 235th ST near Route K 16 knocking down trees and doing moderate damage to homes. The path of damage was 800 yards long and 100 yards wide. There were no injuries or fatalities and property damage was estimated at 200,000 dollars.
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:39 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
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
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- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
More
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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: 5552580.