EF0 tornado in Morris County, Kansas
Tornado April 14, 2012 · Morris County, Kansas
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Marion County → Morris County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
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.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Law Enforcement reported a short narrow damage path to hedge row trees relayed by Emergency Manager. Corroborated with radar data and time estimated based off of radar and track from tornado that moved from Marion County.
The wider storm
A volatile environment developed across Kansas that featured extremely strong wind shear and sufficient buoyancy (called convective energy) to allow supercell thunderstorms to develop ahead of a dry line across central Kansas. The supercells produced strong to violent tornadoes across central Kansas and tracked into parts of the NWS Topeka county warning area during the evening. A handful of tornadoes were reported along with some large hail reports with the most numerous reports of large hail occurring after midnight.
Began near Burdick (38.5900, -96.9300).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 365370. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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