Tornado, Atchison
- When
- May 8, 10:25 PM CST to 10:35 PM CST
- Where
- Atchison County, Highway 59 to 2 mi E of Westboro
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $70,000
- Coordinates
- 40.570, -95.450
Tornado in Missouri, May 8, 1996
A tornado touched down 2 miles east of Highway 59 and one mile south of Route C. The tornado traveled approximately 5 miles to the east destroying a barn and a warehouse of a seed company 1 mile east of Westboro.
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
- $70,000
- 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 EAX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down 2 miles east of Highway 59 and one mile south of Route C. The tornado traveled approximately 5 miles to the east destroying a barn and a warehouse of a seed company 1 mile east of Westboro.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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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- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 8, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 8, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, May 8, 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: 5545987.