Tornadoes · United States · Kansas · 2019

EF0 tornado, Plevna to Nickerson, Kansas, May 5, 2019

Name: EF0 tornado, Plevna to Nickerson, Kansas, May 5, 2019
Start: 2019-05-06T00:13:00.000Z
End: 2019-05-06T00:15:00.000Z
Location: Plevna to Nickerson, Kansas

From Plevna to Nickerson, this EF0 tornado ran 0.3 miles across Reno County on May 5, 2019, touching down at 7:13 PM CDT and reaching 200 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: EF0
Date: May 5, 2019
Touchdown: 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Lifted: 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
On the ground: 2 minutes
Path length: 0.3 miles (0.6 km)
Path width: 200 yards (183 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Reno County
Touchdown point: 38.140, -98.330
Lift-off point: 38.140, -98.324
Record number: 1905051813-01

The damage survey

12 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ICT, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 112 mph.

pivot irrigation tipped over. 300 yds SE
7 electrical poles snapped at the base.
several uprooted and snapped- near center of track
south edge of circulation. trees uprooted, snapped

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

What the Weather Service recorded

Supercell thunderstorms developed across portions of central Kansas, during the late afternoon and evening of May 5th, 2019. The supercells initially produced large hail, but quickly became tornado producing storms, as they moved east southeast. Five different tornadoes ending touching down across Barton, Rice and Reno counties, as the supercell moved to the southeast. As the supercell moved into the Wichita metro area, the storm produced copious amounts of small hail, that covered ground to almost a foot deep, on the west side of Wichita.

A rope tornado moved over open country and blew over a few power line poles.

A tornado touched down over open country and then moved across a farmstead causing damage to several of the out buildings.

This tornado had a peculiar movement from the northeast to the southwest. It initially touched down, and destroyed a 100 foot long pole barn, lofting some of the 1000 pound girders into a nearby field to the west. The tornado then curled back to the southeast hitting another farmstead further south, collapsing a pole barn and knocking down trees all around a farmhouse. Occupants of the house were home, but were uninjured.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

20 minutes of warning. NWS ICT issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:53 UTC, 20 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:45 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 22:51 UTC and running to 03:21 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
22:51 UTC	03:21 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	ICT
23:53 UTC	00:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
00:30 UTC	01:30 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT
00:44 UTC	01:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
01:30 UTC	02:15 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
02:10 UTC	02:32 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:50 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at May 5, 6:42 PM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:42 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Wichita KS
642 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

.SHORT TERM...(This evening through Wednesday night)
Issued at 313 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

Main challenge is the effective frontal boundary placement Tuesday
through Wednesday, especially with regard to diurnal surface
based convection and severe potential. Otherwise, a good signal
for episodic heavy rainfall, mainly nocturnal/early morning both
Monday and Tuesday nights somewhere across the forecast area.

After a chance for strong to severe surface based convection this
evening across western portions of central Kansas, some modest
elevated moisture transport later tonight may support scattered
convection across the Flint Hills and southeast Kansas. Modest
instability and cloud bearing shear combo may support a couple
strong storms.

The cold front will be the focus for organized convection Monday
afternoon/evening. A very unstable airmass is progged ahead of
the front with MLCape values at or above 3000 J/KG over south
central and southeast Kansas by late afternoon/early evening.
Despite modest deep layer shear as shortwave upper ridging moves
across the area, it should be sufficient in tandem with frontal
convergence/lift to promote sustained/organized updrafts and
strong to severe storms. A hail risk initially should transition
to down-burst/outflow wind potential into the evening. The main
weather hazard looks to shift to locally heavy rainfall later in
the evening into a portion of Monday night as the low level jet
ramps up over the surface front owing to strong elevated moisture
transport and higher precipitable water values.

Details beyond Monday night become a bit more uncertain as the
extent of prior convection and mesoscale influences will likely
determine the effective surface boundary position and focus for
the better chances for more robust severe convection. In this
regard, prefer a lean toward the NAM in maintaining a more
southern position to the front through mid-week. This would
likely keep the the best chance for organized severe storms along
or just south of the Kansas border on Tuesday afternoon/evening.
However, there is another decent signal for elevated convection
with embedded heavy rainfall later Tuesday evening/night with
stronger moisture transport within the modest low level jet. There
remains model consensus in lifting out a moderate strength upper
trof across the area during Wednesday. The NAM remains further
south with the effective surface front due to prior mesoscale
convection/complexes, though possibly creeping into portions of
southeast Kansas. The GFS would place most of the forecast area in
the juicy/unstable warm sector with a greater risk for a severe
event. So a conditional, perhaps higher end severe risk is still
possible late Wednesday across portions of far southern Kansas.

Darmofal

.LONG TERM...(Thursday through Sunday)
Issued at 313 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

Still looks a trend to cooler and generally drier weather for the
end of the week with Kansas between influences of a split upper
flow regime across the CONUS.

KED

&&

.AVIATION...(For the 00Z TAFS through 00Z Monday evening)
Issued at 641 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

Storms will be the main issue this evening, with storms at KGBD
and KHUT likely, KICT and KSLN probable in a bit and decent
chance for storms later tonight at KCNU. Conditions will
deteriorate some overnight with MVFR ceilings likely developing
behind cold front that will move into central KS tomorrow. Due to
uncertainty and questionable probabilities, opted to not mention
precipitation in the afternoon, although storms will likely
develop sometime in the vicinity of surface front in the afternoon.
-Howerton

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Wichita-KICT    60  77  59  72 /  30  50  80  40
Hutchinson      58  75  55  69 /  30  50  80  50
Newton          60  75  57  69 /  40  50  80  40
ElDorado        60  77  58  71 /  40  60  80  50
Winfield-KWLD   60  78  60  74 /  40  40  80  40
Russell         56  69  50  62 /  30  60  70  60
Great Bend      56  71  51  64 /  20  50  80  60
Salina          59  73  54  65 /  30  60  80  60
McPherson       58  74  55  68 /  30  60  80  50
Coffeyville     60  79  62  76 /  40  40  80  50
Chanute         59  78  60  73 /  50  60  80  50
Iola            59  78  59  72 /  50  60  80  50
Parsons-KPPF    60  79  60  75 /  50  50  80  50

&&

.ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
&&

SHORT TERM...KED
LONG TERM...KED
AVIATION...PJH

Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wichita KS
537 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-062100-
Russell-Lincoln-Barton-Ellsworth-Saline-Rice-McPherson-Marion-Chase-
Reno-Harvey-Butler-Greenwood-Woodson-Allen-Kingman-Sedgwick-Harper-
Sumner-Cowley-Elk-Wilson-Neosho-Chautauqua-Montgomery-Labette-
537 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of Central Kansas,
South Central Kansas and Southeast Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight

Severe storms will be possible this evening generally along and west
of the Kansas turnpike. Large hail up to around two inches in
diameter and damaging wind gust to 65 mph will be possible. Strong
storms with small hail will be possible overnight, mainly east of
the Kansas turnpike after midnight.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday

Strong to severe storms will be possible Monday afternoon and early
evening along a southward moving cold front. Large hail will be
possible before transitioning to locally damaging wind gusts. Heavy
rainfall is also likely Monday evening and into Monday night, mainly
across south central and southeast Kansas.

Periodic chances for thunderstorms will continue across the entire
area Tuesday through Wednesday night. Locally heavy rainfall can be
expected with a risk for strong to severe storms. The magnitude and
location for the greatest severe risk is a bit uncertain as it will
depend on the movement and placement of the surface front wavering
across the area. So check back for later updates as confidence on
specific details increases in the next couple of days.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is a remote possibility early this evening across
portions of central Kansas, mainly west of highway 14.

&&

For a graphical version of this information, see our webpage at:
http://weather.gov/wichita/hwo/

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 6:45 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
645 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0635 PM     TORNADO          4 NW RAYMOND            38.32N 98.47W
05/05/2019                   RICE               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TORNADO REPORTED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAYMOND.

&&

EPS

Local storm report, May 5, 6:46 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
646 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0641 PM     HAIL             RAYMOND                 38.28N 98.41W
05/05/2019  E2.50 INCH       RICE               KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

KED

Local storm report, May 5, 6:48 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
648 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0640 PM     HAIL             5 ENE ELLINWOOD         38.38N 98.50W
05/05/2019  E2.75 INCH       BARTON             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.

&&

EPS

Special weather statement, May 5, 7:00 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

KSZ082-091-092-060030-
Harper KS-Sumner KS-Kingman KS-
700 PM CDT Sun May 5 2019

The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a

* Significant Weather Advisory for...
  Northeastern Harper County in south central Kansas...
  Northwestern Sumner County in south central Kansas...
  Southeastern Kingman County in south central Kansas...

* Until 730 PM CDT.

* At 657 PM CDT...National Weather Service meteorologists were
  tracking a strong thunderstorm 7 miles east of Harper...moving
  northeast at 30 mph.

hail up to the size of nickels...and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be
possible with this storm.

* Locations impacted include...
  Argonia, Norwich, Danville and Runnymede.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be prepared to take shelter in the event the storms intensify and
become severe...or a warning is issued by the National Weather
Service.

&&

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for
south central Kansas.

LAT...LON 3720 9790 3734 9804 3750 9783 3748 9781
      3747 9781 3747 9779 3735 9762
TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 231DEG 28KT 3732 9790

DARMOFAL

Local storm report, May 5, 7:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
706 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0703 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     6 N PLEVNA              38.06N 98.31W
05/05/2019                   RENO               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            A WELL-DEFINED CONE FUNNEL EXTENDED 3/4 TO THE GROUND
            BEFORE BECOMING RAIN-WRAPPED.

&&

EPS

Local storm report, May 5, 7:10 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
710 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0709 PM     TORNADO          6 S ALDEN               38.16N 98.31W
05/05/2019                   RENO               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            THE SPOTTER REPORTED 2 ROPE TORNADOES.

&&

EPS

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Dodge City, (KDDC), 00:00Z

0.2 hours before the tornado, 144 km from the path. May 6, 2019.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 516 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.4 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Dodge City, (KDDC), 12:00Z

11.8 hours after it, 144 km from the path. May 6, 2019.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2
0-3 km lapse rate: 3.9 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:13 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
22:23 UTC	HAIL 2.5	5 Sw Claflin	Barton, KS	BUSTED WINDSHIELD OF VEHICLE. REPORT RELAYED BY BARTON COUNTY DISPATCH.
22:59 UTC	HAIL 0.88	5 Ene Ellinwood	Barton, KS	.
22:59 UTC	HAIL 0.88	5 Ene Ellinwood	Barton, KS
23:21 UTC	TORNADO	5 Sse Ellinwood	Barton, KS	DELAYED REPORT. BARTON COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN AS WELL AS DAMAGE TO A RESIDENCE AND SHED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF SE 120 ROAD AND SE 50 ROAD. A SILO WAS BLOWN DOWN IN THIS AREA AS WELL AND THE
23:29 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Nne Great Bend	Barton, KS	.
23:29 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Nne Great Bend	Barton, KS
23:30 UTC	TORNADO	3 Wsw Raymond	Rice, KS	.
23:30 UTC	TORNADO	3 Wsw Raymond	Rice, KS
23:32 UTC	TORNADO	3 Nne Great Bend	Barton, KS	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN THEN WENT BACK UP.
23:35 UTC	TORNADO	4 Nw Raymond	Rice, KS	TORNADO REPORTED 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF RAYMOND.
23:40 UTC	HAIL 2.75	5 Ene Ellinwood	Barton, KS	REPORTED EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.
23:41 UTC	HAIL 2.5	Raymond	Rice, KS
00:03 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	6 N Plevna	Reno, KS	A WELL-DEFINED CONE FUNNEL EXTENDED 3/4 TO THE GROUND BEFORE BECOMING RAIN-WRAPPED.
00:04 UTC	TORNADO	3 Sw Alden	Rice, KS	PICTURE FROM STORM CHASER VIA TWITTER.
00:09 UTC	TORNADO	6 S Alden	Reno, KS	THE SPOTTER REPORTED 2 ROPE TORNADOES.
00:23 UTC	HAIL 1.75	7 Wsw Sterling	Reno, KS
00:26 UTC	HAIL 1	Sterling	Rice, KS	THE HAIL OCCURRED 3-5 MILES WEST OF STERLING. THE SPOTTER ALSO REPORTED NO FURTHER ROTATION.
00:29 UTC	HAIL 1	Hutchinson	Reno, KS
00:31 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Hutchinson	Reno, KS
00:33 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	14 S Sterling	Reno, KS	NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED.
00:34 UTC	TORNADO	5 Sw Nickerson	Reno, KS
00:38 UTC	TSTM WND GST 100	6 N Nickerson	Rice, KS	THE SPOTTER ESTIMATED WINDS FROM 90-100 MPH. CHECKING FOR DAMAGE.
00:45 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	Sterling	Rice, KS	DELAYED REPORT. RICE COUNTY DISPATCH REPORTED FLOODING IN STERLING, INCLUDING SOME WATER RESCUES. TIME ESTIMATED.
00:48 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	1 Nne Partridge	Reno, KS	.
00:48 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	1 Nne Partridge	Reno, KS
00:50 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Sterling	Rice, KS
00:51 UTC	HAIL 1.5	4 Sw Nickerson	Reno, KS	.
00:51 UTC	HAIL 1.5	4 Sw Nickerson	Reno, KS
00:58 UTC	FLOOD	Nickerson	Reno, KS	STREET FLOODING, TO CURB LEVEL, WAS OCCURRING IN TOWN.
01:00 UTC	TORNADO	2 Ssw South Hutchinson	Reno, KS
01:04 UTC	HAIL 1	Hutchinson	Reno, KS	LOCATION WAS EXACTLY 1/4 MILE WEST OF HUTCHINSON.
01:20 UTC	TORNADO	3 Sse South Hutchinson	Reno, KS	.
01:20 UTC	TORNADO	3 Sse South Hutchinson	Reno, KS
01:25 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 E Yoder	Reno, KS	THE ROTATION WAS PERSISTENT.
01:25 UTC	HAIL 1.5	2 E Yoder	Reno, KS
01:38 UTC	FLOOD	5 Nw Sterling	Rice, KS	NUMEROUS ROADS IMPACTED BY HIGH WATER FROM CHASE TO STERLING AND POINTS SOUTH IN RICE COUNTY.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

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The other tornadoes of May 5, 2019

21 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 5	11:27 AM EDT	EF1	Marion, FL	0.9	100
May 5	12:40 PM EDT	EF0	Pinellas, FL	0.4	50	$50,000
May 5	5:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Lancaster, NE	0.0	50
May 5	5:36 PM CDT	EF0	Ford, KS	0.6	75
May 5	5:38 PM CDT	EF2	Lancaster, NE	0.6	200
May 5	5:45 PM CDT	EF2	Lynn, TX	17.2	2,112	$36,000
May 5	6:15 PM CDT	EF1	Meade, KS	1.1	100
May 5	6:25 PM CDT	EF1	Barton, KS	0.6	75	$40,000
May 5	6:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Rice, KS	0.2	50
May 5	6:49 PM CDT	Unrated	Meade, KS	0.4	75
May 5	7:00 PM CDT	EF0	Rice, KS	0.5	75	$20,000
May 5	7:04 PM CDT	Unrated	Meade, KS	0.7	75
May 5	7:12 PM CDT	EF1	Lynn, TX	5.0	880
May 5	7:34 PM CDT	EF1	Reno, KS	0.1	300
May 5	7:35 PM CDT	EF1	Reno, KS	0.4	100	$100,000
May 5	8:00 PM CDT	Unrated	Reno, KS	0.2	50
May 5	8:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Reno, KS	0.3	50
May 5	8:39 PM CDT	EF0	Sumner, KS	0.8	75
May 5	8:49 PM CDT	Unrated	Roberts, TX	6.4	500
May 5	8:59 PM CDT	EF0	Borden, TX	0.4	50
May 5	11:54 PM CDT	EF1	Noble, OK	1.5	30	$30,000

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.