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Tornado Warning — Warned Area, KS — May 16, 2026

NWS GLD · ETN 1 · National Weather Service warning
Radar-indicated position & projected track

Event Summary

The National Weather Service office GLD issued a tornado warning at 23:38 UTC on May 16, 2026. The warning was in effect for 37 minutes, ending at May 17, 2026 00:15 UTC. At the last radar check, the storm was located near 39.36, -101.59, moving east at about 14 mph.

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Storm Reports

TimeLocationCounty / StateEFRemarks
1 WNW Edson Sherman, KS UNK Between an NWS Employee seeing a ground circulation while a storm chaser noticing a funnel in the same spot from a different angle... brief tornado east of Edson. (GLD)

Preliminary local storm reports (SPC) within the warned area window — subject to revision after NWS surveys.

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