Tornado, Gray
- When
- May 26, 4:15 PM CST to 4:28 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County, Cimarron to 6 mi NNE of Cimarron
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Property damage
- $850,000
- Coordinates
- 37.880, -100.350
Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
Supercell cycled once again. power poles snapped.
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
- $850,000
- 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 DDC wrote it up.
Supercell cycled once again. Dairy farm heavily damaged with 32 head of cattle injured or killed...6 sprinklers damaged or destroyed...trees uprooted...power poles snapped.
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:15 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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- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 26, 1996
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 26 to 27, 1996
- Tornadoes in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 26 to 31, 1996
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- 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: 5572638.