Tornado, Logan
- When
- April 19, 2:25 PM CST to 2:28 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 12 mi W of Winona
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.070, -101.470
Tornado in Kansas, April 19, 1997
Several spotters reported landspout type tornado moving southeast at 15 mph over open country.
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 GLD wrote it up.
Several spotters reported landspout type tornado moving southeast at 15 mph over open country.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:26 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
- Flood in North Dakota, April 19 to 25, 1997
- Flood in Minnesota, April 19 to 25, 1997
- Coastal Flood and High Wind in Massachusetts, April 19, 1997
- Hail in Tennessee, April 19, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, April 19, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, April 19, 1997
- Hail in Missouri, April 19, 1997
- High Wind in Nevada, April 19, 1997
- Hail in Tennessee, April 19, 1997
- High Wind in Oregon, April 19 to 20, 1997
- Waterspout in U.S. Virgin Islands, April 19, 1997
- Hail in Georgia, April 19, 1997
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1997Warnings in Kansas, April 1997
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: 5595750.