Thunderstorm Wind in Butler County, Kansas

Damaging winds over 60 miles an hour began in Cassoday where 24 utility poles were either broke or blown over. The hardest hit was the Augusta area where four homes were totally destroyed and seven sustained major damage. Two mobile homes were destroyed. A woman was hospitalized when her mobile home was blown over and rolled three times. Sixty mobile homes in the Cedar Land Mobile Home Court had damage. The winds collapsed a storage shed at a car lot, while blowing debris damaged many vehicles on the lot. Damage in the Andover area was mostly from and to trees. Firework tents were knocked down or destroyed and traffic lights were knocked down. Damage estimates range from $10 thousand to $50 thousand. In El Dorado, 70 mph winds damaged the hospital and trees were blown down on the Courthouse lawn. Over 80 mph winds lasted ten minutes in Peabody. Eighty mph winds were reported in Douglass where there was extensive tree damage; the roof of an auto body shop was blown off and a church lost part of its roof. Total damage for the county was nearly $3 million. Utility power lines sustained $614,000 in damages.