EF1 tornado — Montgomery County, Kansas

EF1 tornado in Montgomery County, Kansas

Tornado April 26, 2026 · Montgomery County, Kansas

EF1

Rating

5.0 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Social media photo and video combined with radar data and storm survey indicated an EF1 tornado which damaged farm outbuildings including small grain bins. Multiple were completely removed from their locations.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of severe weather impacted central, south-central, and southeast Kansas from the morning hours of April 26th through the early morning hours of April 27th. Several reports of large hail and damaging winds were relayed; the largest hail size was three inches near Cherryvale, and the strongest wind gusts were in Oswego with 85-95 mph winds which damaged many trees in town. In addition, a few tornadoes occurred across southeast Kansas. The strongest tornado was an EF2 in Montgomery County with damage to two homes along with many trees and some outbuildings; unfortunately one resident was injured in this tornado.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1335554. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF1 tornado in Montgomery County, Kansas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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