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2023 tornadoes in Kansas

45 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in 2023, 25 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 2023

February 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 26	4:42 PM CST	EF0	Seward	3.9	10

April 19 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 19	8:09 PM CDT	EF1	Chase	0.1	75
April 19	8:17 PM CDT	EF0	Chase	0.2	25
April 19	8:18 PM CDT	EF0	Chase	2.1	100	1
April 19	8:22 PM CDT	EF2	Chase	11.6	880
April 19	8:31 PM CDT	EF1	Chase	1.3	200
April 19	8:35 PM CDT	EF1	Chase	1.0	50		$5,000
April 19	8:38 PM CDT	EF0	Chase	2.6	175
April 19	8:45 PM CDT	EF0	Chase	3.2	150	1	$20,000
April 19	8:55 PM CDT	EF2	Chase	5.2	300

April 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 20	2:45 AM CDT	EF0	Riley	0.2	30

May 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	9:09 PM CDT	EF0	Lane	0.0	1

May 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	12:56 PM CDT	Unrated	Cloud	1.6	30
May 9	1:24 PM CDT	Unrated	Clay	1.9	30

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	5:26 PM CDT	Unrated	Sheridan	0.9	100

May 11 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 11	12:57 PM CDT	EF1	Cheyenne to CO	5.2	100
May 11	1:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Rawlins	1.2	100
May 11	1:39 PM CDT	Unrated	Rawlins	1.8	75
May 11	4:33 PM MDT	EF0	Wallace	8.5	100
May 11	4:41 PM MDT	EF0	Wallace	3.2	100
May 11	4:45 PM MDT	EF1	Wallace	1.3	175
May 11	5:09 PM MDT	EF0	Wallace	6.6	100
May 11	6:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Logan	5.8	100
May 11	5:47 PM MDT	Unrated	Sherman	0.8	75
May 11	7:29 PM CDT	Unrated	Thomas	1.5	75
May 11	7:51 PM CDT	EF0	Grant	0.0	1

May 12 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 12	7:03 PM CDT	EF2	Brown	1.5	500
May 12	7:11 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	3.6	50
May 12	7:18 PM CDT	EF0	Brown to NE	2.3	50
May 12	7:38 PM CDT	Unrated	Jackson	0.0	10
May 12	7:49 PM CDT	Unrated	Jackson	0.0	10

June 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 23	8:40 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	0.0	1
June 23	9:09 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	0.0	1
June 23	9:12 PM CDT	EF0	Grant	4.2	1

July 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	4:49 PM MDT	Unrated	Greeley	0.1	75

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	5:40 PM MDT	Unrated	Wallace	0.0	75

July 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 16	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Russell	0.9	300

July 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 17	4:55 PM CDT	EF0	Edwards	0.0	1

July 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 22	4:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Dickinson	0.0	20

August 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 7	4:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Cheyenne	0.2	75

August 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 8	9:17 PM MDT	Unrated	Sherman	1.3	75

September 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 19	6:52 PM CDT	EF0	Rush	1.7	25

September 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 21	8:36 PM CDT	Unrated	Norton	4.6	200

October 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 3	4:25 PM CDT	EF1	Norton	0.1	30			$50,000

October 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 12	3:39 PM CDT	Unrated	Mitchell	0.0	20

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.