EF1 tornado in Marshall County, Kansas

A sporadic damage path extended south southwest into the city of Marysville. The damage from any small tornado is nearly indistinguishable from the widespread 80-100 mph straight line wind damage from the rear flank downdraft hybrid wet downburst that preceded it. A few buildings on the west side of Marysville were damaged by the enhanced winds associated with the small tornado. The remainder of the damage was tree branches snapped and uprooted trees.

One large high precipitation supercell formed near the Nebraska Kansas border and tracked south during the evening of June 11th producing widespread damaging straight line winds of 80-110 mph along with several small tornadoes. The majority of property damage was done by straight line winds within what was the rear flank downdraft of the supercell which was moving south southwest. The widespread destructive winds within the RFD often preceded any smaller vortex with the small tornadoes making damage from tornadoes difficult to distinguish from the downbursts and microbursts within the larger RFD swath. We believe there were at least 5 tornadoes that evening all EF0 or EF1. Ironically, the magnitude of damage from straight line winds in spots exceeded that of the smaller tornadoes.