Tornadoes · United States · Kansas

1984 tornadoes in Kansas

63 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 1984, about the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 22.

1983 1985 The whole country in 1984

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Kansas in 1984

February 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
February 11	5:45 PM CST	F0	Bourbon	0.1	10		$500 to $5,000
February 11	5:47 PM CST	F1	Linn	1.0	30		$50,000 to $500,000
February 11	6:05 PM CST	F1	Miami	2.0	20	1	$5,000 to $50,000

March 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 15	1:10 PM CST	F0	Allen	0.1	10			under $50
March 15	1:10 PM CST	F0	Allen	0.1	10			under $50

April 2 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 2	2:45 PM CST	F0	Kingman	0.1	10	under $50
April 2	2:50 PM CST	F0	Kingman	0.1	10	under $50
April 2	3:00 PM CST	F0	Sumner	3.0	10	$500 to $5,000
April 2	4:18 PM CST	F0	Russell	0.1	10	$5,000 to $50,000

April 26 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 26	6:00 PM CST	F1	McPherson	0.5	150		$500 to $5,000
April 26	7:24 PM CST	F0	Harper	0.1	10		$500 to $5,000
April 26	7:35 PM CST	F0	Harper	0.1	10		$500 to $5,000
April 26	7:45 PM CST	F0	Harvey	0.1	10		$50 to $500
April 26	8:38 PM CST	F0	Montgomery	0.1	10		$50 to $500
April 26	9:25 PM CST	F2	Shawnee	0.6	100	4	$50,000 to $500,000
April 26	9:45 PM CST	F2	Jackson	10.0	400	1	$500,000 to $5 million
April 26	10:02 PM CST	F3	Atchison	32.0	1,200	9	$5 million to $50 million
April 26	10:20 PM CST	F1	Elk	28.0	200		$5,000 to $50,000

April 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	12:25 AM CST	F2	Crawford	8.5	40			$50,000 to $500,000

April 29 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 29	11:38 AM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10		under $50
April 29	11:40 AM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10		$50 to $500
April 29	11:50 AM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10		$50 to $500
April 29	11:58 AM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10		$500 to $5,000
April 29	11:58 AM CDT	F0	Montgomery	0.1	10		$50 to $500
April 29	12:00 PM CDT	F1	Sedgwick	0.5	20		$5,000 to $50,000
April 29	12:05 PM CDT	F1	Sedgwick	0.1	10		$5,000 to $50,000
April 29	12:05 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10		$50 to $500
April 29	12:10 PM CDT	F2	Sedgwick	2.0	20		$50,000 to $500,000
April 29	12:50 PM CDT	F0	Chautauqua	0.1	10		$500 to $5,000
April 29	12:54 PM CDT	F0	Cowley	0.1	10		under $50
April 29	2:38 PM CDT	F1	Cowley	0.3	30	1	$5,000 to $50,000
April 29	3:25 PM CDT	F0	Chase	0.5	100		$500 to $5,000
April 29	3:25 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10		under $50
April 29	3:40 PM CDT	F1	Sedgwick	10.0	10		$5,000 to $50,000

May 31 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	5:55 PM CDT	F0	Cheyenne	5.0	200
May 31	5:00 PM MDT	F0	Wallace	1.0	200

June 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 3	8:45 PM CDT	F0	Harvey	0.5	20			$500 to $5,000

June 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	4:33 PM CDT	F2	Brown	18.0	300		5	$500,000 to $5 million

June 8 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 8	7:25 PM MDT	F0	Sherman	0.1	10	$500 to $5,000
June 8	8:26 PM CDT	F0	Cowley	0.1	10	under $50
June 8	8:28 PM CDT	F0	Cowley	0.1	10	under $50
June 8	8:30 PM CDT	F0	Cowley	0.1	10	under $50
June 8	9:46 PM CDT	F0	Cowley	1.0	50	under $50

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	2:45 PM CDT	F0	Morris	0.1	10

June 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 11	7:40 PM MDT	F1	Sherman	9.0	300	$50,000 to $500,000
June 11	8:01 PM MDT	F2	Sherman	12.0	400	$50,000 to $500,000
June 11	11:00 PM CDT	F1	Rawlins	25.0	200	$50,000 to $500,000

June 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 12	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Phillips	0.1	10
June 12	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Finney	0.1	10

June 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	7:35 PM CDT	F0	Reno	0.5	50			under $50
June 13	8:35 PM CDT	F0	Reno	0.1	10			under $50

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	7:06 PM CDT	F0	Thomas	0.1	10

June 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 22	3:45 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.8	50
June 22	3:55 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.1	10
June 22	5:10 PM CDT	F0	Ellis	0.1	10

June 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 23	3:00 PM CDT	F1	Reno	1.0	30			$5,000 to $50,000

August 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 5	4:40 PM CDT	F0	Scott	0.2	10

October 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 5	4:17 PM CDT	F0	Saline	0.1	10
October 5	8:20 PM CDT	F0	Butler	0.1	10

October 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 16	1:36 PM CDT	F0	Barton	6.0	100

October 31 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 31	6:23 PM CST	F1	Osage	1.0	100	1		$50,000 to $500,000
October 31	7:40 PM CST	F1	Leavenworth	1.0	100		1	$50,000 to $500,000
October 31	8:40 PM CST	F0	Harvey	0.1	10

Nearby

Every tornado in Kansas since 1950 Warnings in force in Kansas The live radar over Kansas

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.