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2013 tornadoes in Kansas

56 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2013, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

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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 2013

April 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 7	6:38 PM CDT	EF0	Russell	0.5	50

May 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 8	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Ellis	0.2	50
May 8	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Ellis	0.7	100
May 8	6:39 PM CDT	EF0	Russell	0.4	50

May 18 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 18	5:27 PM CDT	EF0	Trego	2.9	100
May 18	6:03 PM CDT	EF0	Ness	0.3	100
May 18	6:09 PM CDT	EF1	Ellis	1.7	50
May 18	6:37 PM CDT	EF0	Ellis	0.6	50
May 18	7:18 PM CDT	EF4	Rozel tornado	7.0	1,100	$140,000
May 18	7:49 PM CDT	EF1	Pawnee	4.0	100
May 18	8:10 PM CDT	EF0	Pawnee	2.1	100
May 18	10:35 PM CDT	EF1	Clay	7.0	75
May 18	11:00 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.3	50

May 19 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 19	3:10 PM CDT	EF0	Sumner	0.6	50
May 19	3:19 PM CDT	EF0	Sedgwick	0.8	50
May 19	3:37 PM CDT	EF2	Sedgwick	4.6	300
May 19	4:12 PM CDT	EF0	Sumner	0.4	50
May 19	4:39 PM CDT	EF0	Sumner	0.5	50
May 19	4:40 PM CDT	EF0	Sumner	0.4	50
May 19	4:46 PM CDT	EF0	Cowley	0.7	50
May 19	4:55 PM CDT	EF1	Cowley	1.8	60
May 19	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Marion	0.5	50
May 19	5:17 PM CDT	EF0	Dickinson	0.1	25
May 19	5:27 PM CDT	EF1	Lyon	9.0	75
May 19	5:59 PM CDT	EF0	Cowley	0.2	50

May 20 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 20	4:12 PM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	0.5	50
May 20	4:50 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	0.4	50
May 20	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	0.3	50

May 27 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 27	6:32 PM CDT	EF0	Smith	0.4	15
May 27	6:45 PM CDT	EF0	Smith	0.0	10
May 27	7:04 PM CDT	EF3	Smith	5.7	1,580	2	$1.8 million
May 27	9:40 PM CDT	EF2	Marshall	3.8	150

May 28 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 28	4:16 PM CDT	EF3	Nemaha	4.4	900
May 28	4:20 PM CDT	EF1	Nemaha	0.0	50
May 28	4:45 PM CDT	EF1	Nemaha	0.0	50
May 28	5:33 PM CDT	EF0	Ottawa	0.0	25
May 28	5:45 PM CDT	EF3	Ottawa	2.3	1,000
May 28	6:37 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	4.2	50
May 28	6:40 PM CDT	EF0	Rush	0.6	75

May 29 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 29	3:35 PM CDT	EF0	Logan	0.1	25
May 29	5:43 PM CDT	EF0	Gove	1.3	25
May 29	6:50 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.3	75
May 29	7:00 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.3	100
May 29	7:20 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.1	75
May 29	8:10 PM CDT	EF1	Phillips	0.8	40	$80,000

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	4:18 PM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	0.4	50

June 4 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 4	9:07 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	2.9	100
June 4	12:32 AM CDT	EF1	Kiowa	1.0	50	$18,000
June 4	12:48 AM CDT	EF0	Kiowa	2.0	75

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	3:03 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	0.1	50

July 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 25	3:05 PM MDT	EF0	Hamilton	0.4	50

July 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 29	4:18 PM CDT	EF0	Pratt	0.0	25
July 29	5:05 PM CDT	EF1	Bourbon	0.4	100			$100,000

August 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 5	12:28 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman	0.1	100
August 5	12:40 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman	0.1	100

August 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 13	11:15 AM CDT	EF0	Lane	0.0	25

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.