Tornado, Ellis
- When
- May 30, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.830, -99.270
Tornadoes in Kansas, May 30, 1951
8 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $43,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
8 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Clay
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -97.180
Tornado, Riley
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Riley County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.250, -96.580
Tornado, Pottawatomie
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -96.030
Tornado, Jackson
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.470, -95.730
Tornado, Clay
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.280, -97.020
Tornado, Clay
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 8.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.130, -97.050
Tornado, Pottawatomie
- When
- May 30, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 7.7 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.350, -96.450
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10028706, 10028707, 10028708, 10028709, 10028710, 10028711, 10028712, 10028713.