Tornado, Ottawa
- When
- June 8, 3:47 PM CST
- Where
- Ottawa County, 2 mi NE of Culver
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.980, -97.720
Tornado in Kansas, June 8, 1998
Weather spotters and a sheriff reported a tornado in 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 TOP wrote it up.
Weather spotters and a sheriff reported a tornado in open country.
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:48 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 8 to 30, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, June 8 to 9, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, June 8 to 13, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 8, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 8, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 8, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 8, 1998
- Hail in Kansas, June 8, 1998
- Hail in Colorado, June 8, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 8 to 9, 1998
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1998Warnings in Kansas, June 1998
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: 5652913.