Geary and Dickinson County GIS Departments collaborated during the recent storm that included a large EF4 tornado that swept through part of Dickinson County.

No one was injured but there was damage to multiple rural homes.

Florence Whitebread, Geary County Commission Chair, said they will do more collaboration. “Because it was very interesting in that bad wind storm they had through Dickinson County their GIS they could pinpoint exactly the track of that and what farmsteads were in that, and then they sent responders out to check on the people that live there and the damage done.”

Whitebread called it a great piece of work to help facilitate people respond faster to learn if there were injuries.

GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems.