Norton County Kansas

Norton County Kansas

The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Norton County since 1950. The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year. For example, four tornadoes occurred in 1989 and eight tornadoes occurred in 2011. No tornadoes were reported between 1971 and 1988. More information about the tornadoes occurring in each year is given in the table at the bottom of this page. No tornadoes occurred in Norton county in 2024.

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Norton County. The number of tornado days are shown in orange. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, 16 tornadoes have occurred in June, as shown by the blue bar. The orange bar shows that there have been nine days where a tornado has occurred in June. 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 Norton 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.

33 TORNADOES were reported in Norton County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2023
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	NORTON	06/24/1909	16:00	F2	0	0	4	100
Pre-1950	NORTON	06/24/1909	16:10	F4	0	0	7	M
Pre-1950	NORTON	06/24/1909	16:15	F4	0	0	10	200
Pre-1950	NORTON	04/28/1940	18:00	F2	0	0	3	400
Pre-1950	NORTON	04/28/1940	19:00	F2	0	0	6	M
Pre-1950	NORTON	05/10/1942	19:30	F2	0	0	4	M
Pre-1950	NORTON	05/30/1945	22:00	F3	0	4	9	400
Pre-1950	NORTON	06/21/1947	19:00	F2	1	3	17	M
Pre-1950	NORTON	06/21/1947	19:30	F4	1	8	35	800
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	NORTON	06/27/1952	14:30	F2	0	0	1.90	300
2	NORTON	06/25/1956	20:00	F0	0	0	0.10	30
3	NORTON	07/10/1964	15:00	F0	0	0	0.10	30
4	NORTON	05/25/1965	14:00	F1	0	0	19.90	600
5	NORTON	06/23/1966	16:08	F0	0	0	0.10	30
6	NORTON	06/26/1969	19:15	F3	0	0	47.00	700
7	NORTON	09/06/1970	17:30	F2	0	0	0.80	600
8	NORTON	04/23/1989	17:05	F0	0	0	0.10	70
9	NORTON	04/23/1989	17:40	F0	0	0	0.10	70
10	NORTON	04/23/1989	17:50	F0	0	0	0.10	70
11	NORTON	07/14/1989	18:44	F0	0	0	0.20	30
12	NORTON	03/28/1993	16:51	F1	0	0	1.50	20
13	NORTON	03/28/1993	17:17	F1	0	0	0.30	10
14	NORTON	07/24/1993	01:13	F2	0	0	2.00	90
15	Norton	06/22/1996	19:49	F0	0	0	0.10	20
16	Norton	06/25/1997	20:10	F0	0	0	0.10	30
17	Norton	06/03/1999	18:00	F3	0	0	10.00	440
18	Densmore	06/29/2000	18:34	F0	0	0	0.20	75
19	Norton	10/28/2000	16:51	F0	0	0	0.50	50
20	Lenora	05/14/2007	17:25	F0	0	0	0.25	10
21	Densmore	06/20/2011	13:06	F2	0	0	5.50	600
22	Calvert	06/20/2011	13:15	F0	0	0	1.80	20
23	Calvert	06/20/2011	13:25	F3	0	0	4.00	100
24	Calvert	06/20/2011	13:26	F1	0	0	0.25	25
25	Calvert	06/20/2011	13:30	F2	0	0	4.00	75
26	Almena	06/20/2011	13:35	F0	0	0	1.50	20
27	Almena	06/20/2011	13:41	F3	0	0	4.80	100
28	Reager	06/20/2011	17:44	F0	0	0	0.50	10
29	Lenora	11/16/2015	18:36	F1	0	0	6.00	100
30	Norton	11/16/2015	19:10	F1	0	0	3.85	400
31	Almena	11/16/2015	19:24	F0	0	0	5.74	220
32	6.4 NNE Reager	09/21/2023	19:36	EFU	0	0	4.58	200
33	9.6 N Norton Airport	10/03/2023	15:25	F0	0	0	0.08	30

Totals

0

Total Tornado

EFU

F0

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

33

1

17

6

5

4

0

Updated: February 2024