Tornado, Sedgwick
- When
- July 31, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, Wichita
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.520, -97.550
A brief small tornado dropped out of a thunderstorm. There was no damage.
Tornado in Kansas, July 31, 1994
1 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
- 1
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.
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:19 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, July 31, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 31, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 31, 1994
- Hail in New Mexico, July 31, 1994
- Hail in South Dakota, July 31, 1994
- Hail in Minnesota, July 31, 1994
- Tornado in Colorado, July 31, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Oregon, July 31, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 31, 1994
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1994Every state in 1994This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1994Warnings in Kansas, July 1994
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: 10325764.