EF1 tornado, Craig to Hickman Mills, Kansas, June 8, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

June 8, 2022

Touchdown

1:10 AM CDT (06:10 UTC)

Lifted

1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)

On the ground

20 minutes

Path length

14.4 miles (23.1 km)

Path width

125 yards (114 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Johnson and Jackson counties

Touchdown point

38.964, -94.785

Lift-off point

38.951, -94.517

Record number

2206080010-03

20 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS EAX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

• Windows broken and several hardwood and softwood trees down.
• Roof mounted HVAC covering removed. Multiple light poles down. Shingle and roof damage. Several trees down.
• Traffic signal lights ripped off pole and rod-iron fence pulled down.
• Numerous trees uprooted and snapped.

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

Strong to severe thunderstorms across Kansas and Missouri the evening of June 7th, 2022, continued to evolve into a complex of strong to severe thunderstorms as they moved into the Kansas City Metro area between 12:30 and 1 AM CDT. These storms resulted in numerous reports of wind damage across the region as well as four confirmed tornadoes, one through the southern side of the Kansas City Metro, one in northeastern Jackson County Missouri and two near Louisburg, KS.

Strong to Severe thunderstorms across Kansas and Missouri the evening of June 7th, 2022, continued to evolve into a complex of strong to severe thunderstorms as they moved into the Kansas City Metro area between 12:30 and 1 AM CDT. These storms resulted in numerous reports of wind damage across the region as well as four confirmed tornadoes, one through the southern side of the Kansas City Metro, one in northeastern Jackson County Missouri and two near Louisburg, KS.

The tornado developed on the west side of Lenexa, KS, embedded within the larger line of thunderstorms moving across the Kansas City Metro area. The tornado generally travelled east down W 95th St and Bannister Road, varying in strength at times, before dissipating near the northeast side of the Grandview Triangle on the Missouri Side. This tornado continued into Jackson County, Missouri.

This is the continuation of the tornado that exited Johnson County, Kansas. The tornado developed on the west side of Lenexa, KS, embedded within the larger line of thunderstorms moving across the Kansas City Metro area. The tornado generally travelled east down W 95th St and Bannister Road, varying in strength at times, before dissipating near the northeast side of the Grandview Triangle on the Missouri Side.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 03:15 UTC and running to 08:50 UTC.

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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:56 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.

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.

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 06:10 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.

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

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

The live radar over the trackEvery 2022 tornado in KansasEvery tornado in Kansas since 1950Warnings in force in Kansas nowThe forecast where you are

14 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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