Tornado, Ottawa
- When
- May 7, 4:06 PM CST to 4:16 PM CST
- Where
- Ottawa County, Bennington to 5 mi of Verdi
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -97.530
Tornado in Kansas, May 7, 1997
A tornado touched down briefly at several locations along a five mile path. It produced most of its damage 5 to 6 miles southeast of Bennington where it tore off shingles and blew out windows on one house and damaged two barns, including some of the farm machinery inside.
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
- $80,000
- 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 TOP wrote it up.
A tornado touched down briefly at several locations along a five mile path. It produced most of its damage 5 to 6 miles southeast of Bennington where it tore off shingles and blew out windows on one house and damaged two barns, including some of the farm machinery inside. The tornado also knocked over several trees.
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 7 to 8, 1997
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 7 to 26, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 7, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Cold in West Virginia, May 7, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, May 7, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, May 7, 1997
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1997Warnings in Kansas, May 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: 5593542.