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2010 tornadoes in Kansas

87 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2010, 44 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2009 2011 The whole country in 2010

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2010

April 22 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 22	4:48 PM CDT	EF1	Kearny	9.4	1,760	$180,000
April 22	5:04 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	4.9	440
April 22	5:32 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	2.6	150
April 22	6:10 PM CDT	EF1	Finney	2.7	880	$800
April 22	6:17 PM CDT	EF0	Finney	0.9	75
April 22	6:27 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	3.3	440
April 22	6:39 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	2.7	200
April 22	7:06 PM CDT	EF1	Scott	7.2	440	$210,000
April 22	7:40 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	1.4	150
April 22	7:57 PM CDT	EF0	Lane	3.7	150
April 22	9:21 PM CDT	EF0	Gove	0.5	10

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	7:12 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	1.0	25

May 10 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 10	1:27 PM CDT	EF1	Wichita	0.9	25	$5,000
May 10	1:31 PM CDT	EF0	Wichita	1.3	25
May 10	1:50 PM CDT	EF0	Logan	1.6	25
May 10	2:00 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	0.1	25
May 10	2:18 PM CDT	EF0	Logan	2.2	25
May 10	2:22 PM CDT	EF0	Logan	1.3	25
May 10	3:08 PM CDT	EF0	Ness	0.3	25
May 10	4:12 PM CDT	EF0	Kingman	2.7	125
May 10	4:34 PM CDT	EF2	Kingman	3.1	700	$125,000
May 10	4:44 PM CDT	EF1	Kingman	1.8	300
May 10	4:49 PM CDT	EF1	Cowley	1.4	300	$200,000
May 10	4:58 PM CDT	EF1	Sedgwick	5.1	300	$50,000
May 10	5:08 PM CDT	EF1	Cowley	0.7	150	$15,000
May 10	5:28 PM CDT	EF0	Elk	0.3	75

May 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 11	11:58 PM CDT	EF0	Ford	9.0	100			$10,000

May 12 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 12	3:38 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	0.8	75
May 12	3:52 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	1.6	100
May 12	4:16 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	0.5	75
May 12	4:18 PM CDT	EF0	Reno	0.8	75
May 12	8:11 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	1.3	75

May 16 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	9:33 PM CDT	EF0	Pratt	0.3	50
May 16	10:00 PM CDT	EF0	Kingman	0.8	100

May 19 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 19	5:48 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.1	30
May 19	5:48 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.2	30
May 19	5:55 PM CDT	EF0	Finney	0.4	50
May 19	5:56 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.5	50
May 19	6:26 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.3	30
May 19	6:57 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.2	30
May 19	7:03 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.4	50

May 23 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 23	8:03 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	2.0	25
May 23	7:52 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman to NM, OK	0.1	10
May 23	8:07 PM MDT	EF1	Sherman	6.4	50	$25,000
May 23	8:16 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman	1.9	25

May 25 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 25	5:17 PM MDT	EF0	Greeley	0.8	10
May 25	5:49 PM MDT	EF0	Greeley	0.6	25
May 25	8:06 PM CDT	EF0	Gove	0.3	10
May 25	8:14 PM CDT	EF0	Gove	4.8	75
May 25	8:26 PM CDT	EF1	Gove	21.3	75	$23,000
May 25	8:44 PM CDT	EF1	Gove	9.9	50	$25,000
May 25	10:04 PM CDT	EF0	Trego	5.9	150
May 25	10:20 PM CDT	EF0	Ellis	6.9	75

June 8 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 8	4:55 PM CDT	EF0	Osage	0.4	30
June 8	5:55 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin	0.0	25
June 8	7:29 PM CDT	EF0	Coffey	0.0	25
June 8	7:47 PM CDT	EF0	Anderson	0.1	25	$500

June 11 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 11	8:15 PM CDT	EF1	Sheridan	3.5	50	$100,000
June 11	8:17 PM CDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.2	25
June 11	9:00 PM CDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.7	25
June 11	9:00 PM CDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.7	25

June 12 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 12	5:53 PM CDT	EF1	Barton	0.7	75	$2,000
June 12	6:06 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	0.5	50
June 12	6:32 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	0.5	50
June 12	6:56 PM CDT	EF0	Rice	0.4	50
June 12	7:03 PM CDT	EF1	Rice	1.9	75	$10,000

June 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	6:30 PM CDT	EF1	Jewell	2.1	350

June 20 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 20	3:25 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	0.9	100
June 20	3:43 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	0.5	100
June 20	7:20 PM CDT	EF0	Jewell	0.1	20

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	9:45 PM CDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.5	10

July 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	4:46 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	2.1	75			$25,000
July 4	7:05 PM CDT	EF0	Shawnee	0.0	25			$1,000

July 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	6:55 PM CDT	EF0	Osage	0.0	10

July 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 12	8:25 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee	2.8	60			$125,000

September 14 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
September 14	8:05 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman	2.5	50
September 14	10:35 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	0.9	20
September 14	10:55 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	0.7	10

September 15 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
September 15	6:28 PM CDT	EF0	Sedgwick	0.4	75
September 15	6:34 PM CDT	EF0	Sedgwick	0.7	75
September 15	6:52 PM CDT	EF0	Sedgwick	0.4	75
September 15	7:02 PM CDT	EF0	Greenwood	0.4	75
September 15	7:17 PM CDT	EF0	Greenwood	0.6	75
September 15	7:47 PM CDT	EF0	Cowley	0.4	75
September 15	7:50 PM CDT	EF0	Cowley	0.9	75
September 15	8:00 PM CDT	EF0	Cowley	0.4	75

September 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 25	4:49 PM CDT	EF0	Comanche	0.5	50

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
May 10	3:38 PM CDT	EF3	Grant, OK to KS	40.7	1,500		2	$125,000

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.