Wichita County Kansas

Wichita County Kansas

The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Wichita County since 1950. The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year. For example, four tornadoes occurred in 1991 and six tornadoes occurred in 2016. No tornadoes were reported between 1970 and 1987. 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 Wichita County. The number of tornado days are shown in orange. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, 24 tornadoes have occurred in May, as shown by the blue bar. The orange bar shows that there have been 15 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 Wichita 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.

37 TORNADOES were reported in Wichita County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2024

Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	WICHITA	04/23/1922	M	F2	0	0	5	M
Pre-1950	WICHITA	08/04/1923	17:10	F2	0	8	M	50
Pre-1950	WICHITA	07/24/1939	M	F2	0	0	M	M
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	WICHITA	06/16/1950	15:30	F1	0	0	29.90	30
2	WICHITA	05/08/1951	18:00	F1	0	0	0.10	30
3	WICHITA	06/20/1951	22:00	F2	0	0	48.60	30
4	WICHITA	06/12/1955	19:00	F0	0	0	0.10	30
5	WICHITA	07/12/1956	19:20	F2	0	0	20.00	30
6	WICHITA	07/16/1959	13:30	F0	0	0	2.00	440
7	WICHITA	05/13/1968	13:40	F3	4	5	140.40	320
8	WICHITA	05/28/1969	17:34	F0	0	0	0.10	30
9	WICHITA	05/27/1988	17:30	F0	0	0	0.10	20
10	WICHITA	06/10/1989	19:15	F0	0	0	0.20	10
11	WICHITA	06/10/1989	19:15	F0	0	0	0.20	10
12	WICHITA	05/15/1991	17:27	F0	0	0	1.00	10
13	WICHITA	05/15/1991	17:27	F0	0	0	1.00	10
14	WICHITA	05/15/1991	17:27	F0	0	0	1.00	10
15	WICHITA	05/15/1991	17:27	F0	0	0	1.00	10
16	Selkirk	08/12/1993	20:00	F0	0	0	0.10	13
17	Coronado	03/25/1995	1503	F0	0	0	2.00	20
18	Leoti	05/26/1996	16:18	F1	0	0	1.00	50
19	Horace	05/31/1996	17:50	F0	0	0	0.10	20
20	Leoti	06/22/1999	18:53	F3	0	0	4.00	880
21	Marienthal	06/30/1999	14:48	F0	0	0	0.20	200
22	Leoti	05/27/2001	15:28	F0	0	0	0.20	50
23	Leoti	05/27/2001	15:28	F0	0	0	4.00	75
24	Selkirk	05/08/2008	12:49	F0	0	0	2.00	25
25	Leoti	05/23/2008	18:05	F0	0	0	0.50	25
26	Marienthal	05/10/2010	12:27	F1	0	0	1.00	25
27	Marienthal	05/10/2010	12:31	F0	0	0	1.50	25
28	Lydia	04/24/2015	16:09	F0	0	0	5.32	75
29	Lydia	05/28/2015	14:53	F0	0	0	1.91	50
30	Lydia	05/28/2015	15:07	F0	0	0	0.25	25
31	St. Theresa	05/21/2016	18:05	F0	0	0	0.17	25
32	St. Theresa	05/21/2016	18:13	F0	0	0	0.43	25
33	St. Theresa	05/21/2016	18:21	F0	0	0	0.13	25
34	St. Theresa	05/21/2016	19:15	F0	0	0	0.11	25
35	Lydia	05/22/2016	19:17	F0	0	0	3.85	800
36	Selkirk	05/27/2016	15:13	F0	0	0	0.93	25
37	7 NE Marienthal	06/13/2024	14:05	EFU	0	0	0.02	25

Totals

4

5

Total Tornado

EFU

F0

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

37

1

28

4

2

0

Updated: Jan 2025