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The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Wallace County since 1950. The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year. For example, three tornadoes occurred in 2006 and eight tornadoes occurred in 2007. As of December 31, 2018, last tornado to occur in Wallace County was on May 22, 2007 near Weskan, since then the county has now seen 11 tornadoes since 2019. 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 Wallace County. The number of tornado days are shown in orange. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, seventeen 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 Wallace 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.

47 TORNADOES were reported in Wallace County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2024

Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	WALLACE	04/12/1941	20:30	F3	0	4	15	200
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	WALLACE	06/04/1955	13:20	F0	0	0	0.10	30
2	WALLACE	06/12/1955	19:00	F0	0	0	0.10	30
3	WALLACE	07/20/1958	16:20	F3	0	4	3.30	700
4	WALLACE	06/04/1965	21:15	F0	0	0	0.10	30
5	WALLACE	07/03/1965	22:05	F0	0	0	0.10	30
6	WALLACE	06/07/1966	17:10	F0	0	0	0.10	30
7	WALLACE	06/22/1968	16:55	F0	0	0	0.10	500
8	WALLACE	07/06/1972	19:10	F1	0	0	0.20	17
9	WALLACE	09/12/1976	16:55	F1	0	0	0.10	10
10	WALLACE	05/31/1984	17:00	F0	0	0	1.00	200
11	WALLACE	05/03/1989	15:00	F0	0	0	0.20	10
12	WALLACE	05/15/1991	16:58	F0	0	0	1.00	20
13	WALLACE	05/28/1991	18:25	F0	0	0	1.00	50
14	WALLACE	07/15/1992	21:05	F0	0	0	0.10	10
15	WALLACE	07/15/1992	21:12	F0	0	0	0.10	10
16	WALLACE	08/10/1992	14:57	F0	0	0	3.10	23
17	WALLACE	06/02/1993	17:40	F1	M	M	2.00	30
18	WALLACE	06/02/1993	18:00	F0	M	M	0.20	20
19	Weskan	05/03/1994	19:33	F0	0	0	0.10	20
20	Weskan	06/21/1996	17:15	F1	0	0	0.30	20
21	Weskan	10/31/2000	15:15	F2	0	0	12.00	240
22	Wallace	05/27/2001	14:35	F0	0	0	0.20	50
23	Sharon Spgs	05/16/2004	14:41	F0	0	0	1.50	75
24	Sharon Spgs	09/05/2005	19:26	F0	0	0	1.00	25
25	Wallace	05/07/2006	15:12	F0	0	0	0.30	15
26	Wallace	05/07/2006	15:22	F0	0	0	0.60	25
27	Sharon Spgs	06/03/2006	14:30	F0	0	0	0.30	10
28	Sharon Spgs	03/28/2007	17:49	F0	0	0	0.50	10
29	Sharon Spgs	03/28/2007	17:52	F0	0	0	6.00	75
30	Weskan	03/28/2007	18:41	F1	0	0	23.00	100
31	Weskan	03/28/2007	21:09	F0	0	0	0.50	10
32	Sharon Spgs	04/23/2007	18:47	F1	0	0	5.00	75
33	Wallace	04/23/2007	19:03	F0	0	0	12.00	50
34	Weskan	04/24/2007	12:48	F0	0	0	0.50	10
35	Weskan	05/22/2007	16:49	F0	0	0	2.50	10
36	Wallace	4/28/2019	14:35	EFU	0	0	1.9	100
37	Sharon Spgs	6/2/2020	14:02	EFU	0	0	0.57	30
38	Wallace	5/24/2021	12:03	EFU	0	0	0.56	25
39	Wallace	5/24/2021	12:42	EFU	0	0	0.96	25
40	Sharon Spgs	10/12/2021	16:25	F0	0	0	3.32	100
41	Sharon Spgs	4/22/2022	20:42	F1	0	0	3.02	350
42	7 SSE Weskan	05/11/2023	16:33	F0	0	0	8.48	100
43	4.3 SW Weskan	05/11/2023	16:41	F0	0	0	3.17	100
44	0.9 SSE Weskan	05/11/2023	16:45	F1	0	0	1.25	175
45	7 N Sharon Springs	05/11/2023	17:09	F0	0	0	6.62	100
46	11.5 N Sunland	07/10/2023	17:40	EFU	0	0	0.03	75
47	5.2 SSW Sharon Springs	5/8/2024	11:53	EFU	0	0	0.06	50

Totals

0

4

Total Tornado

EFU

F0

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

47

6

31

8

1

1

0

0

Updated:Jan 2025

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