EFU Tornado — Pottawatomie, Kansas

2024-08-14 · near Blaine, Pottawatomie, Kansas

0.0 mi

Path length

15 yds

Path width

Event narrative

Radar data along with social media photos and storm chaser accounts suggest that a small brief tornado occurred in this location. Less a minute and no damage reported.

Wider weather episode

Severe thunderstorms produced numerous reports of damaging winds during the evening of August 14th. Many of the damage reports were likely due to what are called wet downbursts of locally damaging winds of 65 to 80 mph. A supercell thunderstorm also developed near a warm frontal boundary and did produce a brief tornado based on photos however no damage was reported.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1193091. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.