Tornadoes · United States · Kansas

2022 tornadoes in Kansas

54 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2022, 10 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 2022

March 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 29	7:56 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson	9.9	10

April 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 22	10:42 PM MDT	EF1	Wallace	3.0	350
April 22	12:28 AM CDT	EF0	Logan	5.8	100
April 22	12:32 AM CDT	Unrated	Logan	10.2	100

April 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	1:20 AM CDT	EF1	Sheridan	5.6	125
April 23	1:28 AM CDT	EF1	Sheridan	7.8	125

April 29 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 29	6:31 PM CDT	EF0	Dickinson	1.3	50
April 29	7:52 PM CDT	EF1	Dickinson	4.2	50
April 29	8:00 PM CDT	EF1	Dickinson	21.8	50
April 29	8:03 PM CDT	EF1	Marion	0.9	50
April 29	8:03 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	11.1	100
April 29	8:03 PM CDT	EF0	Marion	0.1	30
April 29	8:10 PM CDT	EF0	Marion	0.2	30
April 29	8:10 PM CDT	EF3	Andover tornado	12.7	250	3	$42 million
April 29	8:19 PM CDT	Unrated	Harvey	0.2	50
April 29	8:37 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	3.3	40
April 29	8:47 PM CDT	Unrated	Butler	0.2	50
April 29	9:05 PM CDT	EF1	Butler	8.1	100
April 29	9:44 PM CDT	EF1	Greenwood	0.0	60

May 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	3:25 PM CDT	EF0	Comanche	1.7	35
May 2	3:46 PM CDT	EF0	Comanche	0.5	25

May 17 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 17	4:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Decatur	1.8	100
May 17	7:46 PM CDT	Unrated	Gove	0.6	50

May 31 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Width (yd)
May 31	6:48 PM CDT	Unrated	Cowley	20
May 31	8:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Cowley	20
May 31	8:40 PM CDT	Unrated	Cowley	20

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	9:01 PM CDT	Unrated	Decatur	3.3	75

June 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	10:15 PM CDT	EF1	Republic	3.1	75
June 7	11:02 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	2.8	75

June 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 8	1:10 AM CDT	EF1	Johnson to MO	14.4	125
June 8	1:21 AM CDT	EF0	Miami	9.7	75
June 8	1:24 AM CDT	EF0	Miami	9.6	75

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	12:11 AM CDT	Unrated	Graham	1.4	100

June 11 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 11	5:53 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	6.3	30
June 11	6:02 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	0.7	30
June 11	6:26 PM CDT	EF1	Marshall	1.7	100
June 11	7:04 PM CDT	EF1	Pottawatomie	11.3	50
June 11	7:20 PM CDT	EF2	Riley	0.3	50	$10 million
June 11	7:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Riley	0.0	10

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	9:20 PM CDT	EF0	Greenwood	0.4	100

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	6:19 PM CDT	EF0	Ford	0.3	20

June 23 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 23	5:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Russell	0.1	50
June 23	5:54 PM CDT	Unrated	Russell	0.1	50
June 23	6:20 PM CDT	Unrated	Lincoln	0.1	50
June 23	6:39 PM CDT	Unrated	Lincoln	0.1	50
June 23	7:26 PM CDT	Unrated	Saline	0.1	50
June 23	7:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Saline	0.1	50

July 22 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 22	4:58 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	0.9	50
July 22	5:00 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	1.1	50
July 22	5:15 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	1.8	50
July 22	5:21 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	0.3	50
July 22	5:21 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	0.2	50
July 22	5:28 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	0.7	50

August 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 29	4:29 PM CDT	EF0	Ford	1.7	30

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
June 11	5:40 PM CDT	EF1	Gage, NE to KS	4.2	150

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.