Kansas, 2000Tornado in Kansas, May 1, 2000
May 1, 2000 · NWS TOP · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- 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.
Tornado, Lyon
- When
- May 1, 5:56 PM CST to 6:08 PM CST
- Where
- Lyon County, 7 mi W of Emporia
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.400, -96.317
A cold air funnel touched down in open country and moved North about 3 miles before dissipating.
- 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.
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 2000$85 million · 25 events
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 1 to 2, 20001 injured · $17 million · F0 · 34 events
- Drought in Georgia, May 1 to 31, 200097 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 1 to 2, 2000$290,000 · 1.75 in hail · 6 events
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 1, 2000$30,000 · 1 event
- Heavy Rain in New York, May 1 to 31, 200018 events
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 200011 events
- Drought in Hawaii, May 1 to 31, 20007 events
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 20004 events
- Hail in Texas, May 1, 20001 in hail · 4 events
- Wildfire in Florida, May 1 to 7, 20002 events
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 1, 2000$10,000 · 2 events
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: 5143583.