EF3 Tornado — Sumner, Kansas

2012-04-14 · near Argonia, Sumner, Kansas

Event narrative

A two story house was completely removed from foundation and had landed on top of a three car garage. The basement is all that remained. Cars that were in the garage lost windows and one was dented on the one side. A fifth wheel camper was thrown 100 yards with only a split in the frame and wheels remaining. The top portion was only small pieces.

This tornado continued on to the NNE and a roof was completely torn off of the home. All of the windows were blown out. Outbuildings were demolished. Large trees were uprooted. Objects were embedded into the house and trees including a twig into a tree, a 2x4 blown into an interior wall on the main part of the house. The porch was gone.

Wider weather episode

A significant severe weather outbreak with several damaging long track tornadoes occurred. The strongest tornado moved through portions of central Kansas and produced EF-4 damage at one home stead. Two other tornadoes touched down producing EF-3 damage in south central Kansas.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 366415. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.