Tornado, Barton
- When
- May 26, 8:53 PM CST to 8:58 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, Liberal to 2 mi N of Liberal
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 37.570, -94.570
Tornado in Missouri, May 26, 1996
F1 tornado from Mulberry Kansas continued northeast and produced a continous damage path from 2 miles west of Liberal to 3 miles north of Liberal. Most of the damage was to trees, some up to 4 feet in diameter.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 from Mulberry Kansas continued northeast and produced a continous damage path from 2 miles west of Liberal to 3 miles north of Liberal. Most of the damage was to trees, some up to 4 feet in diameter. Several large pieces of tin roofing material was blown off a barn.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 110 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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- Hail in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1996Warnings in Missouri, 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: 5559489.