Tornado, Ford
- When
- May 24, 5:02 PM CST to 5:03 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County, Bucklin to 12 mi N of Bucklin
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.720, -99.630
Tornado in Kansas, May 24, 1996
wind recorded at 89 mph near the tornado from a home weather station. a few trees were uprooted.
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 DDC wrote it up.
wind recorded at 89 mph near the tornado from a home weather station. a few trees were uprooted.
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:02 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
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 24, 1996
- Hail in North Carolina, May 24, 1996
- Hail in North Carolina, May 24, 1996
- Hail in North Carolina, May 24, 1996
- Hail in North Carolina, May 24, 1996
- High Wind in Iowa, May 24, 1996
- Hail in Iowa, May 24, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, May 24, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, May 24, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, May 24, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1996Warnings in Kansas, May 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: 5572249.