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Tornado in Sherman County, Kansas

Tornado May 16, 2026 · Sherman County, Kansas

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Not rated

0.0 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Brief tornado occurred in a field one mile southwest of Edson. No damage occurred, and the tornado was stationary.

The wider storm

During the late afternoon, and into the evening, numerous thunderstorms formed over Northwest Kansas in the vicinity of a sharpening dryline. One of them produced hail up to baseball size over and near Goodland. This same storm also produced wind gusts over 80 mph at the Goodland airport. The storm near Goodland produced a brief tornado southwest of Edson as it merged with another storm. As thunderstorms moved eastward, they continued to produce straight-line winds across Thomas, Sheridan, Graham, Norton, and Gove counties. Over 40 power poles were snapped in Sheridan County, and a machine shed north of Hoxie sustained damage. Dust storm conditions were reported on the south edge of the thunderstorm activity as the storms moved east over northern Gove County.

Began near Edson (39.3320, -101.5680).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325176. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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