Tornado, Cloud
- When
- May 9, 6:17 PM CST to 6:18 PM CST
- Where
- Cloud County, 12 mi SW of (Cnk)blosser Apt Con
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.430, -97.820
Tornado in Kansas, May 9, 1996
According to storm chasers in the area, two brief tornadoes touched down from a poorly organized but rotating storm base. The first appeared as a slowly turning dust swirl, while the second, about 1 mile further east, as a tubular column of spirling dirt bands.
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 TOP wrote it up.
According to storm chasers in the area, two brief tornadoes touched down from a poorly organized but rotating storm base. The first appeared as a slowly turning dust swirl, while the second, about 1 mile further east, as a tubular column of spirling dirt bands.
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 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 Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, May 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, May 9 to 10, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Tornado in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 9 to 13, 1996
- Flooding in Tennessee, May 9 to 23, 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: 5555367.