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The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Gove County since 1950. The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year. For example, 12 tornadoes occurred in 2008 while one tornado was reported in 2013 and 2014. Between 1969 and 1979, no tornadoes were reported in the county. More information about the tornadoes occurring in each year is given in the table at the bottom of this page.

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Gove County. The number of tornado days are shown in red. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, 26 tornadoes have occurred in May, as shown by the blue bar. The orange bar shows that there have been twelve days where a tornado has occurred in May. This means that multiple tornadoes were reported on at least one day.

The following table is a list of the tornadoes that have occurred in Gove County. Length is the length of the tornado path measured in miles. The width of the tornado is measured in yards. An ‘M’ indicates that the data is missing. Scale indicates the F or EF rating a tornado was assigned. In the scale column, a letter without a number indicates that a scale value was not assigned.

63 TORNADOES were reported in Gove County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2024
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	GOVE	06/17/1908	15:30	F4	0	0	12	250
Pre-1950	GOVE	05/18/1919	17:00	F2	0	0	12	30
Pre-1950	GOVE	06/23/1928	M	F2	0	0	M	M
Pre-1950	GOVE	06/26/1936	20:00	F2	0	0	2	400
Pre-1950	GOVE	06/08/1941	17:30	F2	0	4	30	M
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	GOVE	08/06/1950	18:30	F2	0	0	8.70	30
2	GOVE	06/17/1951	22:00	F0	0	0	0.70	30
3	GOVE	06/17/1951	22:30	F	0	0	0.10	30
4	GOVE	05/25/1959	19:00	F	0	0	0.10	30
5	GOVE	05/05/1964	22:50	F1	0	1	0.10	30
6	GOVE	05/13/1968	13:40	F3	4	5	4.70	20
7	GOVE	08/28/1979	17:25	F2	0	0	10.10	600
8	GOVE	08/28/1979	18:20	F0	0	0	2.70	100
9	GOVE	08/28/1979	18:25	F0	0	0	1.90	100
10	GOVE	08/28/1979	18:30	F0	0	0	2.70	100
11	GOVE	06/24/1982	13:05	F0	0	0	0.10	30
12	GOVE	04/25/1990	16:50	F0	0	0	2.00	70
13	GOVE	09/06/1992	19:05	F0	0	0	0.10	30
14	GOVE	09/06/1992	19:10	F0	0	0	0.10	30
15	GOVE	09/06/1992	20:10	F0	0	0	0.10	30
16	GOVE	07/07/1993	22:50	F0	0	0	0.10	60
17	Quinter	07/15/1994	18:45	F0	0	0	0.10	20
18	Grainfield	07/05/1999	17:25	F0	0	0	0.20	200
19	Gove	10/28/2000	12:20	F1	0	0	2.00	75
20	Gove	10/28/2000	12:30	F1	0	0	1.00	75
21	Gove	08/23/2001	15:14	F0	0	0	0.50	75
22	Gove	05/16/2004	17:24	F0	0	0	0.50	50
23	Gove	06/09/2005	17:57	F0	0	0	0.75	50
24	Gove	06/09/2005	18:33	F1	0	0	1.50	50
25	Gove	09/28/2007	18:21	F0	0	0	0.25	10
26	Gove	05/22/2008	14:45	F0	0	0	0.50	10
27	Grinnell	05/22/2008	15:07	F0	0	0	3.00	50
28	Grainfield	05/22/2008	16:25	F0	0	0	9.00	75
29	Gove	05/22/2008	17:08	F1	0	0	9.00	200
30	Quinter	05/22/2008	17:32	F0	0	0	0.50	25
31	Gove	05/23/2008	15:02	F0	0	0	0.50	25
32	Quinter	05/23/2008	15:20	F0	0	0	4.50	400
33	Quinter	05/23/2008	15:34	F1	0	0	5.00	200
34	Quinter	05/23/2008	15:35	F0	0	0	14.00	1760
35	Gove	05/23/2008	16:35	F0	0	0	5.00	100
36	Quinter	05/23/2008	17:10	F4	0	2	11.40	1320
37	Gove	06/05/2008	14:13	F0	0	0	1.00	25
38	Gove	07/31/2009	19:41	F0	0	0	0.25	10
39	Gove	07/31/2009	19:44	F0	0	0	0.25	10
40	Gove	04/22/2010	20:21	F0	0	0	0.50	10
41	Gove	05/25/2010	19:06	F0	0	0	0.30	10
42	Gove	05/25/2010	19:14	F0	0	0	4.80	75
43	Gove	05/25/2010	19:26	F1	0	0	21.25	75
44	Gove	05/25/2010	19:44	F1	0	0	9.90	50
45	Gove	06/18/2011	18:40	F0	0	0	0.30	10
46	Quinter	06/20/2011	11:55	F0	0	0	1.00	25
47	Quinter	06/20/2011	12:00	F0	0	0	2.75	25
48	Grainfield	05/29/2013	16:43	F0	0	0	1.30	25
49	Gove	06/29/2014	5:05	F1	0	0	1.00	50
50	Gove	05/09/2015	19:00	F0	0	0	5.67	100
51	Grinnell	05/09/2015	19:38	F1	0	0	6.07	50
52	Gove	11/16/2015	17:20	F0	0	0	2.72	25
53	Grainfield	11/16/2015	17:30	F0	0	0	1.83	25
54	Grainfield	11/16/2015	17:34	F1	0	0	1.40	300
55	Gove	05/08/2016	16:33	F0	0	0	8.85	25
56	Gove	10/02/2017	18:18	F1	0	0	9.49	450
57	Gove	10/02/2017	18:43	F1	0	0	0.41	75
58	Gove	10/02/2017	18:58	F0	0	0	0.14	50
59	Quinter	10/02/2017	19:24	F1	0	0	0.54	100
60	Buffalo Park	05/17/2022	18:51	EFU	0	0	0.56	50
61	Campus	3/24/2024	16:11	EFU	0	0	1.84	100
62	13.9 S Gove	5/1/2024	17:26	EFU	0	0	0.07	50
63	19.7 SSE Gove	5/1/2024	19:55	EFU	0	0	0.02	50

Totals

Total Tornado

EFU

Updated: Jan 2025

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