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2014 tornadoes in Kansas

39 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2014, 35 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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 2014

April 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 2	6:55 PM CDT	EF0	Barber	0.3	40
April 2	8:23 PM CDT	EF0	Chautauqua	0.0	10

April 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 20	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	0.1	10
April 20	5:47 PM CDT	EF0	Rawlins	0.1	10

April 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	5:40 PM CDT	EF2	Bourbon	16.1	400			$500,000

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	8:16 PM CDT	EF0	Greenwood	0.1	75

May 11 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 11	6:12 PM CDT	EF1	Pawnee	3.3	150
May 11	6:44 PM CDT	EF0	Edwards	0.8	25
May 11	8:44 PM CDT	EF0	Stafford	3.4	50
May 11	9:03 PM CDT	EF0	Pratt	4.6	50
May 11	9:12 PM CDT	EF0	Rice	0.4	50
May 11	9:20 PM CDT	EF0	Rice	1.0	50
May 11	9:51 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	1.3	75
May 11	9:54 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	0.7	50
May 11	10:05 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	1.1	75

June 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	5:43 PM CDT	EF0	Republic	0.1	50
June 1	6:12 PM CDT	EF0	Republic	0.0	25

June 3 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
June 3	8:20 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.7	50
June 3	10:30 PM CDT	EF3	Nemaha	6.3	500	2
June 3	11:24 PM CDT	EF1	Brown	2.6	200

June 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 6	6:47 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.5	25
June 6	6:58 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.6	25
June 6	6:59 PM CDT	EF0	Kearny	0.3	25

June 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 11	3:54 PM MDT	EF0	Greeley	0.1	10
June 11	7:58 PM CDT	EF1	Logan	0.1	25			$50,000

June 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 14	5:27 PM CDT	EF1	Rooks	0.8	110			$10,000

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	5:43 PM MDT	EF0	Hamilton	0.5	25

June 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	4:40 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman	1.0	25
June 27	5:44 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	2.0	25

June 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 29	6:05 AM CDT	EF1	Gove	1.0	50			$50,000
June 29	9:20 PM CDT	EF0	Shawnee	1.6	30

August 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 9	3:45 PM CDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.5	10
August 9	3:57 PM CDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.3	10
August 9	4:55 PM CDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.3	10

August 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 28	5:30 PM CDT	EF0	Osborne	0.1	25
August 28	6:30 PM CDT	EF1	Russell	2.0	220

September 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 1	8:01 PM CDT	EF0	Cowley	3.7	100
September 1	8:25 PM CDT	EF1	Chautauqua	7.4	100

December 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 14	5:38 PM CST	EF0	Harper	6.0	100

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 27	5:29 PM CDT	EF2	Ottawa, OK to KS	11.4	325	1	37	$13 million

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.