Tornadoes · United States · Kansas

2019 tornadoes in Kansas

87 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2019, 44 percent above 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 2019

April 17 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 17	6:38 PM CDT	Unrated	Sumner	1.1	30
April 17	7:50 PM CDT	Unrated	Greenwood	0.1	30

April 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	3:35 PM MDT	Unrated	Wallace	1.9	100

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	4:10 AM CDT	EF0	Miami	2.1	15			$50,000

April 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 30	1:18 PM CDT	Unrated	Labette	0.2	50

May 5 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 5	5:36 PM CDT	EF0	Ford	0.6	75
May 5	6:15 PM CDT	EF1	Meade	1.1	100
May 5	6:25 PM CDT	EF1	Barton	0.6	75	$40,000
May 5	6:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Rice	0.2	50
May 5	6:49 PM CDT	Unrated	Meade	0.4	75
May 5	7:00 PM CDT	EF0	Rice	0.5	75	$20,000
May 5	7:04 PM CDT	Unrated	Meade	0.7	75
May 5	7:13 PM CDT	EF0	Reno	0.3	200
May 5	7:34 PM CDT	EF1	Reno	0.1	300
May 5	7:35 PM CDT	EF1	Reno	0.4	100	$100,000
May 5	8:00 PM CDT	Unrated	Reno	0.2	50
May 5	8:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Reno	0.3	50
May 5	8:39 PM CDT	EF0	Sumner	0.8	75

May 6 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	9:17 PM CDT	Unrated	Gray	4.7	50
May 6	9:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Edwards	2.8	150

May 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 7	11:19 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	1.9	100

May 17 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 17	8:36 PM CDT	EF0	Meade	1.5	50
May 17	8:37 PM CDT	EF3	Meade	29.6	600	$500,000
May 17	8:46 PM CDT	EF0	Clark	0.4	25
May 17	9:30 PM CDT	EF2	Ford	14.9	875
May 17	10:19 PM CDT	EF2	Edwards	10.9	565
May 17	11:28 PM CDT	Unrated	Pawnee	0.8	50
May 17	11:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Barton	0.2	50

May 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	4:14 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee	2.2	440			$25,000
May 20	4:23 PM CDT	EF1	Crawford to MO	10.7	1,200			$1.1 million

May 21 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 21	4:32 PM CDT	EF1	Dickinson	7.5	100
May 21	4:50 PM CDT	EF0	Rooks	0.2	50
May 21	4:52 PM CDT	Unrated	Dickinson	17.7	150
May 21	6:10 PM CDT	EF0	Shawnee	12.6	50
May 21	6:38 PM CDT	EF2	Jackson	17.1	75
May 21	7:06 PM CDT	EF0	Nemaha	3.0	50
May 21	7:08 PM CDT	EF1	Atchison	5.4	30
May 21	7:20 PM CDT	EF3	Nemaha	5.9	300

May 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	8:05 PM CDT	EF3	Cherokee to MO	9.2	440			$5.3 million

May 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 24	3:40 AM CDT	EF1	Marshall	9.6	50
May 24	4:19 AM CDT	EF1	Nemaha	5.9	50
May 24	4:19 PM CDT	EF1	Butler	1.4	75
May 24	4:53 PM CDT	Unrated	Butler	0.2	50

May 26 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 26	4:36 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	1.0	100	$42,000
May 26	9:22 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	50
May 26	10:49 PM CDT	EF1	Gray	0.7	25	$60,000
May 26	10:51 PM CDT	EF1	Ford	1.9	25
May 26	10:52 PM CDT	EF1	Ford	1.8	25
May 26	11:07 PM CDT	EF1	Ford	3.1	50
May 26	11:14 PM CDT	EF0	Hodgeman	1.7	25
May 26	11:28 PM CDT	EF1	Hodgeman	1.3	25	$60,000
May 26	12:00 AM CDT	EF1	Pratt	8.9	100

May 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 27	1:13 AM CDT	EF0	Mitchell	0.0	25			$25,000

May 28 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 28	4:15 PM CDT	EF0	Ellis	0.1	25
May 28	5:10 PM CDT	Unrated	Osage	0.5	25
May 28	5:20 PM CDT	EF2	Russell	24.4	880		$150,000
May 28	5:49 PM CDT	EF2	Osage	10.7	200	12
May 28	6:05 PM CDT	EF4	Lawrence–Linwood tornado	29.1	1,760	4	$26 million
May 28	6:40 PM CDT	Unrated	Ellis	1.3	50

June 3 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 3	7:13 PM CDT	EF0	Grant	0.7	60
June 3	6:53 PM MDT	Unrated	Sherman	0.0	50
June 3	7:07 PM MDT	Unrated	Sherman	1.6	50

June 8 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 8	4:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Cheyenne	1.3	100
June 8	4:45 PM CDT	Unrated	Cheyenne	1.1	100
June 8	8:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Logan	0.8	50
June 8	9:10 PM CDT	Unrated	Logan	2.9	100
June 8	10:05 PM CDT	Unrated	Logan	0.6	100

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	2:37 PM CDT	EF0	Edwards	1.4	75

June 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 23	3:20 AM CDT	Unrated	Harper	0.8	50
June 23	3:37 AM CDT	Unrated	Harper	0.6	50

July 5 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 5	4:45 PM CDT	EF0	Finney	0.3	50
July 5	4:48 PM CDT	EF0	Finney	0.3	50
July 5	5:03 PM CDT	EF0	Lane	0.3	50
July 5	7:24 PM CDT	EF0	Rush	0.4	50

August 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 11	7:47 PM CDT	EF1	Cheyenne	1.2	175			$50,000
August 11	8:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Rawlins	0.9	50

August 15 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 15	7:34 PM CDT	Unrated	Riley	1.4	25
August 15	8:05 PM CDT	Unrated	Geary	3.8	50
August 15	8:34 PM CDT	EF1	Wabaunsee	6.7	150
August 15	8:41 PM CDT	Unrated	Wabaunsee	1.6	25
August 15	9:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Wabaunsee	2.5	25

August 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 24	9:24 PM CDT	Unrated	Barton	0.7	25

September 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 21	4:48 PM CDT	Unrated	Chautauqua	0.5	25
September 21	6:12 PM CDT	EF1	Elk	1.2	75	$5,000
September 21	6:16 PM CDT	Unrated	Elk	0.5	25

September 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 24	7:23 PM CDT	EF0	Barber	0.8	50

September 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 27	7:56 PM CDT	EF0	Osage	0.2	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)	Damage
May 17	7:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Beaver, OK to KS	6.7	50
May 20	4:23 PM CDT	EF1	Noble, OK to KS, MO	3.0	100	$75,000
May 22	7:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Rogers, OK to KS	1.8	75
May 22	7:25 PM CDT	EF1	Ottawa, OK to KS	7.3	1,100	$75,000

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.