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Greeley County Kansas

 

The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Greeley County since 1950.  The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year.  For example, eight tornadoes occurred in 1995 while one tornado was reported in 2017 and 2018.  Between 1964 and 1975, 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. No tornadoes occurred in Greeley county in 2024.

 

 

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Greeley County.  The number of tornado days are shown in orange.  A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred.  Since 1950, 15 tornadoes have occurred in May, as shown by the blue bar.  The orange bar shows that there have been ten 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 Greeley 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.  

 

42 TORNADOES were reported in Greeley County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2023
Number Location Date Time Scale Fatality Injury Length Width
Pre-1950 GREELEY  06/01/1941 15:20 F2 0 0 3 25
Number Location Date Time Scale Fatality Injury Length Width
1 GREELEY  06/29/1957 18:45 F0 0 0 0.10 30
2 GREELEY  11/21/1963 16:30 F2 0 0 25.70 100
3 GREELEY  09/12/1976 16:49 F1 0 0 0.10 30
4 GREELEY  07/30/1978 14:24 F0 0 0 0.10 30
5 GREELEY  07/09/1982 17:55 F1 0 0 0.10 30
6 GREELEY  05/02/1988 11:00 F1 0 0 3.00 150
7 Tribune  05/22/1993 17:11 F1 0 0 0.50 20
8 Whitelaw  05/22/1993 17:35 F1 0 0 0.20 10
9 GREELEY  05/15/1995 18:24 F0 0 0 0.20 50
10 Tribune  05/15/1995 18:35 F0 0 0 1.00 100
11 Whitelaw  05/16/1995 21:45 F0 0 0 0.10 30
12 Horace  05/16/1995 22:31 F0 0 0 1.50 100
13 Tribune  06/08/1995 02:58 F0 0 0 0.10 20
14 Tribune  07/01/1995 15:49 F0 0 0 0.10 20
15 Tribune  07/01/1995 16:23 F0 0 0 0.10 20
16 Tribune  07/01/1995 17:07 F0 0 0 0.10 20
17 Tribune  06/11/1997 14:35 F0 0 0 1.50 100
18 Horace  07/05/1997 14:24 F0 0 0 0.10 30
19 Tribune  06/25/2000 13:40 F0 0 0 0.20 50
20 Tribune  06/28/2003 19:02 F0 0 0 0.20 20
21 Tribune  06/04/2004 17:26 F0 0 0 0.20 50
22 Tribune  06/15/2004 18:06 F0 0 0 0.50 50
23 Tribune  06/15/2004 18:30 F0 0 0 0.20 50
24 Tribune  08/21/2004 18:40 F0 0 0 0.20 50
25 Tribune  07/11/2006 14:06 F0 0 0 0.40 10
26 Tribune  03/28/2007 17:48 F0 0 0 11.00 100
27 Tribune  03/28/2007 18:09 F0 0 0 23.00 100
28 Tribune  03/28/2007 17:48 F0 0 0 11.00 100
29 Tribune  05/08/2008 12:27 F0 0 0 5.00 100
30 Horace  05/25/2009 12:45 F0 0 0 0.25 20
31 Horace  05/25/2010 16:17 F0 0 0 0.83 10
32 Horace  05/25/2010 16:49 F0 0 0 0.60 25
33 Tribune 06/11/2014 14:54 F0 0 0 0.1 10
34 Whitelaw 05/28/2015 13:14 F0 0 0 0.5 20
35 Horace 05/27/2016 13:51 F0 0 0 0.13 25
36 Whitelaw 05/27/2016 14:12 F0 0 0 0.1 25
37 Whitelaw 10/02/2017 17:15 F0 0 0 0.73 100
38 8.5 NNW Horace 08/18/2018 15:40 F0 0 0 0.29 25
39 Whitelaw 05/21/2020 12:33 EFU 0 0 0.01 50
40 Horace 08/14/2020 14:30 EFU 0 0 1.24 50
41 Tribune 08/14/2020 14:49 EFU 0 0 1.34 100
42 2.8 NNE Horrace 07/04/2023 16:49 EFU 0 0 0.13 75
  Totals       0 0    
                 
  Total Tornado EFU F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5
  42 4 30 7 1 0 0 0

 

Updated: February 2024