EMORIA (KVOE) -- The National Weather Service says there was a small tornado in east Morris and northwest Lyon counties on Monday evening.
The National Weather Service says an EF-1 QLCS, or quasi-linear con-vective system, tornado touched down 4 miles east of Council Grove in far east Morris County just before 7:45 pm. The damage path, 50 yards at its widest, ended 5 miles north of Allen, a distance of 15 miles.
The Weather Service says radar in-dicated strong rotation in the area of isolated tree damage that was noted Tuesday. The path also included damage to several pools and “uplift on roof material” for a 2-story house.
A line segment had enough low-level rotation to set off three tornado warnings in rapid succession along the US Highway 56 corridor, pro-gressing from far east Morris Coun-ty to northwest Osage County. The tornado apparently developed on the leading edge of a line of storms after supercells produced isolated tornado activity in north-central Kansas.
There does not currently appear to be any evidence of other tornadic activity for area counties from Monday night.
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