Bennington tornado, 28 May 2013 — video stillPhoto: LerchbaumerFilm · Source · CC BY 3.0. Resized for display; WebP conversion.- Location
- West of Bennington, Ottawa County, Kansas
- Official rating
- EF3 Damage-based rating
- Local time · 28 May 2013
- About 17:45–18:45 CDT (UTC−5)
- UTC
- About 2013-05-28 22:45–23:45 UTC
- Time on the ground
- About 1 hour
- Track length
- Looping track; NWS summary gives no total distance
- Maximum width
- About 0.25–0.5 mi (NWS summary)
- Damage wind category
- EF3 damage category
Event & radar context
The large, slow-moving tornado travelled southeast, then north and back southwest. NWS assigned EF3 from structural damage, while mobile Doppler measurements suggested stronger winds. Those research-radar winds are distinct from the archived KTWX observations shown here.
Interpreting the rating
F, EF and IF are different damage-rating scales. Original source labels are preserved. Badge colours group the numerical categories for browsing; they do not imply identical wind thresholds. Radar products do not directly establish the damage rating.
Event facts: NWS Topeka event survey ↗