Power Outage in Concordia, KS

A power pole was snapped.

This broad but weak tornado damaged several outbuildings and power lines along its path. End point based on an extrapolation of a video and radar data.

Reports including photos from social media show ice accumulation on tree limbs and power lines to between one half and three quarters of an inch across the county. The Concordia ASOS ice sensor also reported 0.44 of ice during this event.

Concordia also reported power outages.

Concordia ASOS reported a 75 mph wind gust. Also multiple large trees uprooted onto streets making them impassible. One tree fell on a house causing damage. Power lines also fell and pulled meters out from houses. In Jamestown a 3 foot diameter hackberry tree blew onto a house.

A powerful winter storm moved through Cloud county December 7th through December 9th. Area schools and businesses were closed as a result of the snow. Near blizzard conditions were experienced as heavy snow in conjunction with 20 to 30 mph winds brought visibilities to below a quarter mile at times. Snow totals across the county ranged from 9 to 14 inches during the 2 day event. On December 8th at Concordia, 12 inches of snow fell which broke the record for that day and was the 3rd highest one day snow total on record.

Law enforcement reported the city of Concordia is without power. A measured wind gust.

Accumulated ice was up to half of an inch thick was reported across the county. The town of Miltonvale was without power sporadically the morning of the 11th, and outages were otherwise scattered across the county. Schools, businesses, many government offices, and other events were called off across the county, and public transportation was shut down during and for 2 days following the event. Tree limbs were reported to have fallen across several city and county roads.

A slow moving storm system brought a prolonged period of freezing rain to the state between January 14th and 16th. Parts of the state of Kansas received over 1 inch of ice while areas within the NWS Topeka county warning area received less. Some parts of east central Kansas received between one quarter and one half inch of ice while areas of north central Kansas also received up to around one half inch of ice through Jan 16th. Air temperatures were critical during this event and actually warmed to around 32 degrees on Jan 15th which served to limit the ice accumulation on power lines and trees which helped to minimize impacts across the area.

During the early morning hours of May 22nd a line of thunderstorms moved through central KS causing very isolated large hail. As the line moved into far northeast KS it was able to produce wind damage to power poles and an outbuilding.

On October 13, 2012 scattered thunderstorms produced strong winds that caused some minor damage to areas in Cloud, Ottawa, and Marshall Counties. The extent of the damage were some power lines down in Minneapolis, Kansas and a couple large diameter tree branches down in Frankfort, Kansas. A few 1 inch hail stones also fell in Cloud County.

A mixture of freezing rain and freezing drizzle produced ice accumulations that downed tree limbs and caused some power outages. Slick roads were reported and resulted in at least 1 minor vehicle accident.