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1999 tornadoes in Kansas

64 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 1999, about the average of the record for the state. They killed 6 people and injured 151. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

1998 2000 The whole country in 1999

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 1999

April 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 3	5:10 AM CST	F1	Cherokee	0.1	100			$100,000

April 5 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 5	4:45 AM CDT	F0	Harper	2.0	0		$30,000
April 5	7:10 AM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	2.0	350		$100,000
April 5	7:40 AM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	2.0	50		$2.0 million
April 5	1:30 PM CDT	F0	Marshall	5.0	80		$60,000
April 5	1:49 PM CDT	F1	Nemaha	1.0	80	1	$100,000
April 5	2:12 PM CDT	F1	Nemaha	10.0	100		$350,000
April 5	2:40 PM CDT	F0	Brown	0.1	100

April 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 26	7:50 PM CDT	F0	Pratt	0.1	50
April 26	8:24 PM CDT	F1	Pratt	6.0	0	$4,000
April 26	8:46 PM CDT	F0	Barber	4.2	50

May 3 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 3	7:35 PM CDT	F1	Sumner	12.0	440			$250,000
May 3	8:13 PM CDT	F4	Haysville tornado	24.0	880	6	150	$141 million
May 3	9:15 PM CDT	F0	Butler	0.0	0

May 4 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 4	2:02 PM CDT	F1	McPherson	8.0	0	$1.1 million
May 4	2:08 PM CDT	F0	Saline	5.0	0
May 4	2:15 PM CDT	F0	Ellsworth	1.0	0
May 4	2:23 PM CDT	F0	McPherson	2.0	0
May 4	2:45 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	6.0	0
May 4	4:35 PM CDT	F1	Marion	20.0	0	$80,000
May 4	5:15 PM CDT	F0	Geary	0.5	50	$1,000
May 4	5:30 PM CDT	F1	Morris	4.0	100
May 4	5:54 PM CDT	F0	Geary	5.0	100
May 4	6:30 PM CDT	F0	Wabaunsee	1.5	0
May 4	7:10 PM CDT	F0	Pottawatomie	0.2	0
May 4	7:37 PM CDT	F0	Jackson	0.2	30

May 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	7:20 PM CDT	F1	Barton	5.0	110			$100,000
May 10	8:16 PM CDT	F0	Rice	1.0	0

May 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	11:35 PM CDT	F0	Smith	1.0	20

May 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	7:02 PM CDT	F1	Rooks	3.0	50			$10,000

May 16 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 16	6:10 PM CDT	F1	Dickinson	2.5	100	$60,000
May 16	6:28 PM CDT	F0	Marion	0.0	0
May 16	7:00 PM CDT	F1	Marion	2.0	440	$70,000
May 16	7:10 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	0.0	0
May 16	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	4.0	110
May 16	7:41 PM CDT	F0	Marion	10.0	110

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	6:30 PM CDT	F1	Marshall	0.1	50			$1,000

May 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	9:30 PM CDT	F1	Osborne	6.0	50			$40,000

May 31 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 31	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Meade	2.0	30
May 31	6:25 PM CDT	F0	Meade	0.2	50
May 31	7:30 PM CDT	F1	Clark	4.2	150
May 31	7:50 PM CDT	F1	Comanche	1.5	0
May 31	9:40 PM CDT	F0	Ellsworth	2.0	0	$10,000

June 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 3	7:00 PM CDT	F3	Norton	10.0	1,320			$1.0 million
June 3	8:18 PM CDT	F0	Phillips	0.5	30

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	8:30 PM CDT	F1	Stevens	0.5	0			$750,000

June 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	4:44 PM CDT	F0	Haskell	0.1	20
June 18	5:20 PM CDT	F1	Haskell	1.0	40			$10,000

June 22 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 22	7:53 PM CDT	F3	Wichita	4.0	880	$250,000
June 22	8:15 PM CDT	F0	Kearny	0.5	50
June 22	8:30 PM CDT	F0	Kearny	0.5	50
June 22	9:45 PM CDT	F0	Kearny	0.1	20

June 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 30	12:54 PM MDT	F0	Sherman	0.2	200
June 30	3:00 PM CDT	F0	Logan	0.2	200
June 30	3:45 PM CDT	F0	Scott	0.1	30
June 30	3:48 PM CDT	F0	Wichita	0.2	200

July 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 2	7:50 PM CDT	F0	Cheyenne	0.2	200
July 2	8:10 PM CDT	F1	Rawlins	0.7	250

July 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 5	6:25 PM CDT	F0	Gove	0.2	200

July 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)
July 6	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.5
July 6	5:57 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.5
July 6	6:10 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.5

September 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 7	5:31 PM CDT	F0	Sumner	0.5	110

September 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 26	7:22 PM CDT	F0	Reno	1.0	110

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.