Tornado, Norton
- When
- April 23, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Norton County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.880, -99.700
Tornadoes in Kansas, April 23, 1989
10 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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
10 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 5:12 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.980, -99.580
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 5:18 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.950, -99.550
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -99.620
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 5:38 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.870, -99.570
Tornado, Norton
- When
- April 23, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Norton County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -99.880
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 5:44 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.800, -99.480
Tornado, Norton
- When
- April 23, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Norton County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.850, -99.700
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 6:16 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.850, -99.320
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- April 23, 6:26 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.900, -99.320
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
Every storm in Kansas in 1989Every state in 1989This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1989Warnings in Kansas, April 1989
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: 10034728, 10034729, 10034730, 10034731, 10034732, 10034733, 10034734, 10035795, 10035796, 10035797.