Tornadoes · United States · Kansas

2001 tornadoes in Kansas

101 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2001, 68 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 31. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2000 2002 The whole country in 2001

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 2001

April 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 6	5:10 PM CDT	F2	Morton	6.6	350	2	$100,000
April 6	5:38 PM CDT	F1	Stevens	7.0	150		$100,000
April 6	5:47 PM CDT	F2	Grant	14.0	150		$240,000

April 10 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 10	9:42 PM CDT	F1	Kearny	5.1	150		$150,000
April 10	11:08 PM CDT	F2	Trego	40.1	400		$750,000
April 10	11:35 PM CDT	F1	Rooks	14.0	300		$100,000
April 10	11:45 PM CDT	F0	Rooks	3.0	75	1	$100,000
April 10	12:05 AM CDT	F1	Osborne	9.0	100		$150,000
April 10	12:10 AM CDT	F2	Ford	17.3	380		$190,000
April 10	12:24 AM CDT	F1	Smith	4.0	100		$70,000
April 10	12:25 AM CDT	F1	Osborne	2.0	75		$50,000
April 10	12:25 AM CDT	F1	Osborne	13.0	200		$160,000
April 10	12:39 AM CDT	F2	Ford	10.0	200		$420,000
April 10	12:48 AM CDT	F1	Ford	9.6	150		$170,000
April 10	12:49 AM CDT	F0	Smith	3.5	50		$10,000
April 10	12:57 AM CDT	F0	Edwards	7.4	100

April 11 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 11	1:14 AM CDT	F1	Jewell	17.5	75	$130,000
April 11	1:30 AM CDT	F1	Republic	10.0	75	$20,000
April 11	1:55 AM CDT	F0	Washington	6.0	75	$10,000
April 11	2:05 AM CDT	F1	Washington	4.0	100	$10,000

April 14 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 14	6:25 PM CDT	F2	Pratt	7.5	800
April 14	7:23 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	0.5	110
April 14	9:38 PM CDT	F0	Chautauqua	0.5	110

April 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 20	7:10 PM CDT	F0	Phillips	1.0	100			$120,000

April 21 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 21	7:00 PM CDT	F0	Pawnee	0.4	30
April 21	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Rush	1.5	75
April 21	7:40 PM CDT	F2	Rush	1.5	100			$200,000
April 21	8:04 PM CDT	F0	Trego	0.2	50
April 21	8:07 PM CDT	F0	Rush	2.2	75
April 21	9:00 PM CDT	F0	Rush	0.3	50
April 21	9:15 PM CDT	F4	Hoisington tornado	5.0	660	1	28	$43 million
April 21	9:37 PM CDT	F0	Barton	0.5	55
April 21	10:15 PM CDT	F0	Ellsworth	0.5	55
April 21	10:44 PM CDT	F0	Ellsworth	2.0	220			$10,000
April 21	11:15 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	2.0	220			$50,000

May 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	7:29 PM CDT	F0	Sumner	0.5	55

May 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 8	6:50 PM CDT	F0	Jewell	0.5	40
May 8	7:15 PM CDT	F0	Mitchell	2.0	80
May 8	9:04 PM CDT	F1	Republic	0.2	50

May 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 19	12:17 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.3	30

May 20 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 20	4:20 PM CDT	F0	Phillips	0.1	10
May 20	4:40 PM CDT	F0	Rooks	0.5	30	$10,000
May 20	4:58 PM CDT	F0	Rooks	1.0	50	$120,000
May 20	5:16 PM CDT	F0	Rooks	0.5	30
May 20	6:44 PM CDT	F0	Russell	0.5	55
May 20	6:47 PM CDT	F0	Russell	1.5	55
May 20	6:49 PM CDT	F0	Barton	3.0	110
May 20	7:44 PM CDT	F0	Sedgwick	0.5	55
May 20	8:14 PM CDT	F0	Stafford	0.2	30
May 20	8:20 PM CDT	F0	Stafford	1.3	50
May 20	8:10 PM MDT	F0	Hamilton	0.2	30

May 27 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 27	2:35 PM MDT	F0	Wallace	0.2	50
May 27	4:22 PM CDT	F0	Logan	0.2	50
May 27	4:28 PM CDT	F0	Wichita	0.2	50
May 27	4:28 PM CDT	F0	Wichita	4.0	75
May 27	4:35 PM CDT	F0	Logan	0.2	50
May 27	6:31 PM CDT	F0	Comanche	0.5	50

May 29 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 29	3:45 PM CDT	F0	Logan	7.0	75
May 29	3:59 PM CDT	F0	Logan	0.2	50
May 29	4:25 PM CDT	F0	Sheridan	0.5	50
May 29	6:57 PM CDT	F1	Morton	1.2	50
May 29	7:51 PM CDT	F0	Seward	0.8	30
May 29	8:50 PM CDT	F0	Labette	1.0	110

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	6:50 PM CDT	F0	Cheyenne	1.0	50

June 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	3:56 PM CDT	F0	Edwards	0.2	50
June 1	4:00 PM CDT	F0	Edwards	0.1	30

June 3 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 3	9:07 PM CDT	F0	Harper	1.0	110
June 3	10:13 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	0.5	55
June 3	11:05 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	3.0	110
June 3	11:05 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	0.5	55
June 3	11:10 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	1.0	110
June 3	11:15 PM CDT	F0	Kingman	0.5	55

June 5 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 5	6:19 PM CDT	F0	Harper	1.0	110
June 5	7:28 PM CDT	F0	Sumner	1.0	110
June 5	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Sumner	1.0	110
June 5	7:39 PM CDT	F0	Harvey	1.5	220	$50,000
June 5	9:02 PM CDT	F0	Sumner	1.0	110
June 5	9:10 PM CDT	F0	Butler	1.0	110
June 5	9:24 PM CDT	F0	Sumner	1.0	110

June 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	12:47 PM CDT	F0	Kiowa	0.1	30

June 13 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 13	8:46 PM CDT	F1	Republic	8.0	300	$120,000
June 13	8:58 PM CDT	F0	Republic	5.0	100	$40,000
June 13	8:58 PM CDT	F0	Hodgeman	0.1	30
June 13	9:00 PM CDT	F0	Hodgeman	2.0	50
June 13	9:12 PM CDT	F0	Hodgeman	7.0	250
June 13	9:28 PM CDT	F0	Pawnee	0.1	30
June 13	9:45 PM CDT	F0	Rush	9.0	150
June 13	10:00 PM CDT	F0	Hodgeman	2.5	150

July 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 27	6:40 PM CDT	F0	Rawlins	0.2	50
July 27	12:17 AM CDT	F0	Rawlins	0.5	50

August 23 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 23	4:14 PM CDT	F0	Gove	0.5	75
August 23	4:45 PM CDT	F0	Russell	0.5	110
August 23	5:20 PM CDT	F0	Russell	1.0	110
August 23	5:37 PM CDT	F0	Ellis	0.3	30
August 23	5:50 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	0.5	110	$10,000
August 23	5:58 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	1.0	110
August 23	6:05 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	1.0	110

September 7 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 7	4:48 PM CDT	F1	Saline	10.0	220	$250,000
September 7	5:26 PM CDT	F1	Geary	12.0	200	$180,000
September 7	5:59 PM CDT	F1	Dickinson	0.1	75	$10,000
September 7	6:00 PM CDT	F0	Riley	0.1	50

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.