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Tornado (EF3)Sedgwick, Kansas

April 14, 2012 · NOAA Storm Events record

Direct deaths
0
Direct injuries
38
Property damage
$500.0M
Tornado scale
EF3
Area
Sedgwick

Event narrative (NOAA)

Significant damage to homes, many of them had a number missing outer walls. Seven homes were missing two to four walls, one home was completely destroyed. The trees associated with house completely stripped to nothing, this was also the case at many other locations along the path. ||A mobile home park to south had seventy five percent of the homes uninhabitable. Approximately twenty five percent were reduced to rubble. ||Significant damage was also noted at McConnell AFB. Many of the hangars sustained damage. One hangar in particular that was owned by Spirit Aerosystems sustained a considerable amount of damage.||Several apartments and businesses also had damage like roofs being torn off and windows blown out.

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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.

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