Tornado, Crawford
- When
- May 26, 8:50 PM CST to 8:52 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Mulberry to 1 mi of Mulberry
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 37.530, -94.650
Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
F1 tornado touchdown 1 mile southwest of Mulberry and appeared to skip through town as it moved northeast. There was not a continuous damage path.
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
- $100,000
- 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 SGF wrote it up.
F1 tornado touchdown 1 mile southwest of Mulberry and appeared to skip through town as it moved northeast. There was not a continuous damage path. 12 residences were damaged, mostly due to trees falling on roofs. Two downtown commercial buildings were severely damaged.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:51 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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- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 26, 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: 5559488.