Tornadoes · United States · Kansas

2006 tornadoes in Kansas

90 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2006, 49 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2005 2007 The whole country in 2006

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 2006

January 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 28	3:17 PM CST	F0	Harvey	4.0	50	$100,000
January 28	3:27 PM CST	F0	Clay	0.8	75	$10,000
January 28	3:53 PM CST	F0	Washington	0.3	50

March 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 12	8:20 AM CST	F0	Leavenworth	1.0	50			$10,000
March 12	2:20 PM CST	F0	Linn to MO	16.4	220			$400,000

March 30 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 30	1:25 PM CST	F0	Reno	3.0	50		$80,000
March 30	2:13 PM CST	F1	Marion	6.0	75	1	$70,000
March 30	3:50 PM CST	F0	Wilson	2.5	50
March 30	4:04 PM CST	F1	Brown	3.0	100		$350,000
March 30	4:06 PM CST	F2	Montgomery	16.0	125	1	$1.0 million
March 30	5:35 PM CST	F1	Wilson	10.0	75		$20,000
March 30	6:00 PM CST	F0	Woodson	0.1	50
March 30	6:03 PM CST	F0	Allen	0.5	50

April 1 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 1	6:20 PM CST	F0	Pawnee	0.3	20
April 1	7:20 PM CST	F1	Barber	12.8	300
April 1	8:20 PM CST	F2	Pratt	4.9	200

April 6 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 6	3:53 PM CDT	F1	Saline	2.6	200	$70,000
April 6	4:03 PM CDT	F1	Dickinson	2.5	200	$30,000
April 6	4:13 PM CDT	F0	Clay	1.0	100
April 6	4:14 PM CDT	F0	Clay	4.0	100	$30,000
April 6	4:40 PM CDT	F1	Clay	9.0	880	$100,000
April 6	5:20 PM CDT	F2	Washington to NE	17.3	440	$750,000
April 6	7:46 PM CDT	F1	Cherokee to MO	5.0	250	$100,000

April 15 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 15	5:48 PM CDT	F0	Pottawatomie	0.1	50
April 15	6:20 PM CDT	F0	Jackson	11.0	100	$70,000
April 15	6:40 PM CDT	F0	Brown	1.0	50	$100,000
April 15	6:44 PM CDT	F1	Brown	4.0	75	$150,000
April 15	6:52 PM CDT	F0	Brown	0.1	50	$30,000
April 15	7:03 PM CDT	F0	Doniphan	2.0	50
April 15	8:05 PM CDT	F0	Leavenworth	1.0	50
April 15	8:20 PM CDT	F0	Wyandotte	4.0	75

May 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 3	3:53 PM CDT	F0	Bourbon to MO	11.0	50
May 3	6:09 PM CDT	F0	Crawford	0.1	30

May 7 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 7	3:12 PM MDT	F0	Wallace	0.3	15
May 7	3:22 PM MDT	F0	Wallace	0.6	25
May 7	6:53 PM CDT	F0	Finney	1.0	150
May 7	8:40 PM CDT	F1	Haskell	3.5	150
May 7	8:51 PM CDT	F1	Haskell	1.0	75

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	8:38 PM CDT	F0	Finney	0.5	50

May 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	5:55 PM CDT	F0	Thomas	0.3	10

June 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 3	2:30 PM MDT	F0	Wallace	0.3	10

June 16 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 16	1:03 PM MDT	F0	Sherman	0.2	10
June 16	1:19 PM MDT	F1	Sherman	0.7	10	$10,000
June 16	1:19 PM MDT	F1	Sherman	1.0	8	$30,000
June 16	6:22 PM CDT	F0	Ness	0.3	20

June 17 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 17	8:21 PM CDT	F0	Butler	0.5	40
June 17	8:42 PM CDT	F0	Elk	2.0	50

June 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	8:00 PM CDT	F0	Seward	0.3	20
June 22	8:04 PM CDT	F0	Stafford	0.3	20

July 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 11	3:06 PM MDT	F0	Greeley	0.4	10

August 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 7	6:49 PM CDT	F1	Thomas	5.0	25		4	$120,000

August 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 19	7:22 PM CDT	F0	Ellis	0.2	20

August 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 25	7:28 PM CDT	F0	Ellsworth	0.5	30

September 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 15	8:17 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.6	20
September 15	10:54 PM CDT	F0	Kiowa	0.3	20

September 21 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 21	1:53 PM CDT	F1	Russell	6.0	75	$100,000
September 21	3:13 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	17.0	300	$30,000
September 21	3:36 PM CDT	F0	Mitchell	6.0	100
September 21	4:03 PM CDT	F0	Mitchell	6.0	50
September 21	4:16 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	0.3	35
September 21	4:30 PM CDT	F0	Ottawa	0.1	30
September 21	4:55 PM CDT	F0	Ottawa	0.1	30

October 26 28 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 26	3:50 PM CDT	F0	Gray	0.5	30
October 26	4:05 PM CDT	F0	Gray	2.3	30
October 26	4:15 PM CDT	F1	Grant	6.5	70	$40,000
October 26	4:15 PM CDT	F1	Grant	0.7	20
October 26	4:20 PM CDT	F0	Grant	1.5	20
October 26	4:20 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.4	30
October 26	4:24 PM CDT	F0	Meade	0.4	20
October 26	4:31 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.4	20
October 26	4:31 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.4	20
October 26	4:40 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.8	30
October 26	4:40 PM CDT	F0	Grant	0.8	20
October 26	4:42 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.6	20
October 26	4:43 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.2	20
October 26	4:43 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.2	20
October 26	4:46 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.2	20
October 26	4:46 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.2	20
October 26	4:52 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.5	20
October 26	4:53 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.3	30
October 26	4:53 PM CDT	F0	Ford	1.3	150
October 26	4:55 PM CDT	F0	Ford	1.5	1,760
October 26	4:55 PM CDT	F0	Grant	2.6	40
October 26	5:02 PM CDT	F0	Grant	0.9	20
October 26	5:02 PM CDT	F0	Ford	0.2	20
October 26	5:15 PM CDT	F0	Grant	1.7	20
October 26	5:30 PM CDT	F0	Grant	1.0	20
October 26	5:36 PM CDT	F0	Clark	0.4	20
October 26	5:40 PM CDT	F0	Comanche	0.3	20
October 26	5:42 PM CDT	F0	Comanche	0.3	20

Crossed into Kansas

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Kansas. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 6	7:05 PM CDT	F1	Craig, OK to KS	11.5	40		12	$240,000

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.