EF1 Tornado — Finney, Kansas

2009-04-29 · near Plymell, Finney, Kansas

Event narrative

This tornado started out moving southeast but then curved back to the southwest towards the end of it's life. It unfortunately went through a cattle dairy and killed over 200 head as a tremendous amount of tin churned through the air. There was one male that received injury when a door blew in. There were 8 pivot irrigation sprinklers damaged or destroyed, along with power poles, trees, roof and window damage.

Wider weather episode

Severe thunderstorms, an one in particular (which started as a LP Supercell), produced very large hail and 5 tornadoes. There were also numerous gustnadoes and downburts reported.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 168570. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.