EF1 tornado in Sumner County, Kansas
Tornado March 5, 2026 · Sumner County, Kansas
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
An occluded tornado produced damage to a couple of outbuildings, and it moved several round hay bales. They were strewn on either side of the road. A couple small headstones in the cemetery were knocked over.
The wider storm
During the late evening of Thursday March 5th, a supercell thunderstorm tracked out of northern Oklahoma and into southern Kansas. As the storm crossed into Kansas, the rotation strengthened and eventually produced a couple of tornadoes over western Sumner County. One tornado damaged a few farm outbuildings, multiple trees and overturned a pumpjack. It was rated an EF-2. The other tornado damaged farm outbuildings and utility poles. Thankfully there were no injuries or fatalities. The storm produced damaging straightline winds as well.
Additional storms developed across central Kansas with up to nickel to quarter sized hail reported. There were storms with winds around 60 mph as well including one that damaged a cedar tree.
Began near Milan (37.1529, -97.7432).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1323221. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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