Event narrative (NOAA)
A strong tornado developed in far northwestern Saline county Kansas around 744pm CDT and moved northeast into Ottawa County doing damage to several structures including a single family home. The tornado was well documented by numerous chasers and become wide with multiple vortices noted on video. The lack of DIs in this part of Kansas can be a challenge when it comes to rating tornadoes and using the traditional methodology of DIs yielded a EF3 rating. The tornado dissipated just to the southwest of Minneapolis, KS around 810 pm CDT.
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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.