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The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Sheridan County since 1950. The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year. For example, two tornadoes occurred in 1993 and 1995 and twelve tornadoes occurred in 2008. Between 1973 and 1992, only one tornado occurred. 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 Sheridan County. The number of tornado days are shown in orange. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, 22 tornadoes have occurred in May, as shown by the blue bar. The orange bar shows that there have been 12 days where a tornado has occurred in the month of 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 Sheridan 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.

50 TORNADOES were reported in Sheridan County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2022

Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	SHERIDAN	06/01/1908	15:15	F3	0	0	15	100
Pre-1950	SHERIDAN	05/29/1918	M	F3	0	0	M	M
Pre-1950	SHERIDAN	06/01/1932	16:30	F2	0	0	6	100
Pre-1950	SHERIDAN	04/28/1947	17:15	F3	0	4	18	800
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	SHERIDAN	10/29/1956	16:15	F2	0	0	7.6	50
2	SHERIDAN	10/29/1956	16:15	F2	0	0	7.7	50
3	SHERIDAN	06/15/1957	19:00	F1	0	0	6.80	30
4	SHERIDAN	05/29/1959	16:30	F1	0	0	7.90	30
5	SHERIDAN	05/04/1965	17:15	F0	0	0	5.20	30
6	SHERIDAN	06/14/1970	14:30	F3	0	5	17.20	900
7	SHERIDAN	07/20/1972	14:00	F0	0	0	0.40	50
8	SHERIDAN	09/05/1972	17:10	F2	0	0	2.00	100
9	SHERIDAN	03/28/1981	14:15	F1	0	0	0.10	30
10	SHERIDAN	07/06/1993	23:57	F1	M	M	8.00	60
11	SHERIDAN	07/07/1993	22:58	F1	M	M	0.10	90
12	Menlo	05/12/1995	14:15	F2	0	1	32.00	1000
13	Tasco	05/12/1995	15:45	F2	0	0	0.80	200
14	Selden	06/22/1996	19:14	F0	0	0	0.10	20
15	Selden	06/19/2000	20:42	F0	0	0	0.20	75
16	Hoxie	06/19/2000	20:44	F0	0	0	0.20	75
17	Hoxie	10/28/2000	12:56	F0	0	0	1.00	50
18	Selden	10/31/2000	15:54	F0	0	0	2.00	75
19	Angelus	05/29/2001	15:25	F0	0	0	0.50	50
20	Angelus	05/22/2007	19:23	F0	0	0	0.25	10
21	Tasco	06/19/2007	13:35	F0	0	0	2.00	50
22	Selden	05/22/2008	16:11	F1	0	0	17.60	400
23	Angelus	05/22/2008	16:32	F0	0	0	9.00	75
24	Seguin	05/22/2008	16:55	F2	0	2	9.40	300
25	Selden	05/22/2008	17:18	F0	0	0	2.00	75
26	Selden	05/22/2008	17:20	F0	0	0	1.00	50
27	Studley	05/23/2008	15:39	F1	0	0	5.00	200
28	Tasco	05/23/2008	15:43	F2	0	0	14.00	1760
29	Studley	05/23/2008	17:52	F0	0	0	4.00	750
30	Tasco	05/23/2008	18:15	F0	0	0	6.10	350
31	Hoxie	05/29/2008	15:40	F0	0	0	3.70	75
32	Hoxie	05/29/2008	16:45	F0	0	0	0.50	25
33	Lucerne	06/21/2008	18:55	F0	0	0	0.30	10
34	Lucerne	06/11/2010	19:15	F1	0	0	3.50	50
35	Lucerne	06/11/2010	19:17	F0	0	0	0.23	25
36	Lucerne	06/11/2010	20:00	F0	0	0	0.66	25
37	Lucerne	06/11/2010	20:00	F0	0	0	0.67	25
38	Angelus	06/21/2010	20:45	F0	0	0	0.50	10
39	Selden	06/20/2011	16:27	F0	0	0	0.50	10
40	Angelus	5/9/2015	20:12	F0	0	0	13.88	150
41	Selden	5/9/2015	20:50	F2	0	0	18.75	150
42	Selden	6/4/2015	20:53	F0	0	0	0.6	25
43	Angelus	11/16/2015	17:34	F1	0	0	18.47	300
44	Hoxie	5/26/2017	22:35	F0	0	0	0.25	50
45	Hoxie	5/26/2017	22:45	F0	0	0	0.25	30
46	12.1S Tasco	5/18/2018	18:36	F0	0	0	0.01	25
47	Hoxie	6/21/2020	13:50	F0	0	0	5.82	100
48	Selden	5/24/2021	16:06	F1	0	0	5.87	850
49	Selden	4/23/2022	0:20	F1	0	0	4.69	125
50	Hoxie	4/24/2022	0:28	F1	0	0	7.76	125
51	3.5 NW Selden	05/10/2024	16:26	EFU	0	0	0.86	100

Totals

0

1

Total Tornado

EFU

F0

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

51

1

29

12

8

1

0

0

Updated: February 2024

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