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F0 tornado in Linn County, Kansas

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Linn County, Kansas

Rating

16.4 mi

Whole path

220 yd

Path width

$400K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Linn County → Bates County, Missouri; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 220 yards (0.12 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

Tornado touched in rural country 6 miles east-southeast of La Cygne at 1420 CST. It crossed from Linn county into Bates county Missouri at 1424 CST...8 miles east of La Cygne. Damage was limited to trees.

The wider storm

A significant tornado outbreak occurred over portions of eastern Kansas and western Missouri on March 12, 2006. Three distinct rounds of severe weather occurred on March 12th, one in the morning, the second in the mid-afternoon hours, and the last round which occurred after sunset. In addition to the seventeen tornado touchdowns in the Pleasant Hill forecast area, 203 reports of large hail and/or damaging winds were also received from virtually every county in the Pleasant Hill service area. To put the March 12th outbreak into perspective, an average severe weather season in our local area brings approximately 11 tornadoes, and around 400 reports of hail and/or damaging wind to the local region. Unfortunately, 6 lives were lost from the tornadoes that struck Urich, Sedalia, and Renick, Missouri. Another 60 persons were injured. Damage estimates in the Kansas City metropolitan area alone reached $6.58 million.

Began near La Cygne (38.3167, -94.6500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F0 Leavenworth County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5498450. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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