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F3 tornado in Sumner County, Kansas

Tornado June 12, 2004 · Sumner County, Kansas

Rating

4.0 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

Injuries

$500K

Damage as recorded

$75K

Crop damage

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado started moving NE before becoming influenced by the outflow of the storm and darted back to the SE. The tornado ripped the roof off one home and blew out two walls and a roof of another. However, the tornado took dead aim on one home about 3.5 miles SE of Mulvane and completely removed it from it's foundation. Two inhabitants were under the staircase in the basement and escaped with only minor injuries.

Began near Mulvane (37.3500, -97.9333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F0 Sumner County F0 Cowley County F0 Cowley County F0 Cowley County F0 Elk County F0 Elk County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5402456. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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