Tornadoes · United States · Kansas

2017 tornadoes in Kansas

60 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2017, about 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 2017

February 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 28	10:37 PM CST	EF0	Crawford	0.1	75			$50,000
February 28	10:43 PM CST	EF0	Crawford	0.1	75			$10,000

March 6 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 6	5:35 PM CST	EF0	Geary	0.1	50
March 6	5:36 PM CST	EF0	Wabaunsee	16.1	50
March 6	5:37 PM CST	EF0	Pottawatomie	0.0	25
March 6	5:37 PM CST	EF0	Wabaunsee	0.1	50
March 6	5:59 PM CST	EF0	Wabaunsee	1.9	50
March 6	6:13 PM CST	EF0	Shawnee	5.2	50
March 6	7:05 PM CST	EF0	Butler	0.1	50
March 6	7:38 PM CST	EF1	Franklin	3.0	50
March 6	7:51 PM CST	EF0	Johnson	0.3	100

April 15 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 15	6:38 PM CDT	EF0	Rush	0.6	50
April 15	7:05 PM CDT	EF0	Pawnee	0.2	50
April 15	7:25 PM CDT	EF0	Ottawa	1.7	25

April 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	5:21 PM MDT	EF0	Sherman	1.5	50

May 16 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 16	5:49 PM CDT	EF1	Clark	4.0	50
May 16	7:59 PM CDT	EF3	Pawnee	26.6	300	2	$658,000
May 16	8:48 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	0.3	75

May 18 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 18	4:03 PM CDT	EF0	Stafford	0.6	50
May 18	4:14 PM CDT	EF0	Ford	0.5	50
May 18	4:18 PM CDT	EF0	Ford	0.3	50
May 18	4:30 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	0.1	50
May 18	4:33 PM CDT	EF0	Stafford	0.6	50
May 18	5:23 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	0.2	50
May 18	5:49 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	0.6	50
May 18	5:52 PM CDT	EF0	Wabaunsee	0.0	25
May 18	6:31 PM CDT	EF0	Saline	0.3	50

May 19 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 19	3:37 PM CDT	EF0	Barber	0.4	50
May 19	3:53 PM CDT	EF0	Barber	3.0	150
May 19	4:11 PM CDT	EF0	Pratt	2.2	50
May 19	4:14 PM CDT	EF0	Pratt	4.5	75
May 19	4:22 PM CDT	EF0	Kingman	0.2	50
May 19	4:53 PM CDT	EF0	Kingman	0.3	50
May 19	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Kingman	0.3	50
May 19	5:32 PM CDT	EF0	Reno	0.7	50
May 19	5:37 PM CDT	EF0	Reno	0.6	50
May 19	7:15 PM CDT	EF0	Clay	0.0	20
May 19	7:48 PM CDT	EF0	Chase	0.2	50
May 19	8:09 PM CDT	EF0	Morris	0.0	25
May 19	8:25 PM CDT	EF1	Chase	0.8	60
May 19	8:38 PM CDT	EF0	Lyon	0.0	25

May 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	11:35 PM CDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.3	50
May 26	11:45 PM CDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.3	30

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	2:44 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	0.3	50

June 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 16	11:01 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	2.6	100

June 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 26	6:20 PM CDT	EF0	Saline	6.9	50

July 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 21	5:52 PM CDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.0	400

October 1 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
October 1	5:53 PM CDT	EF0	Graham	3.4	100
October 1	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Graham	0.6	100
October 1	6:57 PM CDT	EF0	Rooks	0.0	15

October 2 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 2	6:53 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	4.5	100
October 2	7:02 PM CDT	EF1	Scott	2.5	150	$150,000
October 2	7:09 PM CDT	EF2	Scott	18.3	450
October 2	6:15 PM MDT	EF0	Greeley	0.7	100
October 2	7:43 PM CDT	EF1	Gove	0.4	75	$40,000
October 2	7:58 PM CDT	EF0	Gove	0.1	50	$4,000
October 2	8:24 PM CDT	EF1	Gove	0.5	100	$75,000

October 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
October 6	6:56 PM CDT	EF0	Rice	0.7	50
October 6	7:50 PM CDT	EF0	Saline	2.4	50
October 6	10:06 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	1.1	40

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.