Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast and Northern Plains; Critical Fire Weather in the West

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Decatur County Kansas

The graph below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Decatur County since 1950. The blue bars indicate the number of tornadoes in a given year. For example, the most tornadoes occurring in Decatur County in one year was five in 1996. One tornado was reported in 2007 and two tornadoes occurred in 2015. More information about the tornadoes occurring in each year is given in the table at the bottom of this page. No tornadoes occurred in Decatur county in 2024.

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Decatur County. The number of tornado days are shown in red. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, 17 tornadoes have occurred in June, as shown by the blue bar. The orange bar shows that there have been 11 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 Decatur 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.

51 TORNADOES were reported in Decatur County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2023
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	DECATUR	04/28/1884	14:00	F2	0	0	M	M
Pre-1950	DECATUR	04/20/1885	19:30	F2	0	4	11	25
Pre-1950	DECATUR	05/20/1891	12:30	F3	0	0	8	400
Pre-1950	DECATUR	05/09/1905	17:00	F2	0	1	15	100
Pre-1950	DECATUR	04/30/1906	16:20	F3	1	4	20	600
Pre-1950	DECATUR	05/25/1917	12:30	F2	0	0	4	120
Pre-1950	DECATUR	04/29/1942	22:30	F5	15	25	20	300
Pre-1950	DECATUR	05/20/1949	16:15	F2	0	0	4	50
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	DECATUR	07/06/1952	15:00	F1	0	0	11.90	30
2	DECATUR	05/27/1953	17:00	F1	0	0	0.10	10
3	DECATUR	05/27/1953	19:53	F1	0	0	0.10	10
4	DECATUR	07/04/1958	17:15	F	0	0	0.10	30
5	DECATUR	06/10/1960	19:40	F0	0	0	0.10	30
6	DECATUR	05/17/1962	16:30	F	0	0	0.10	30
7	DECATUR	06/05/1965	16:15	F	0	0	0.10	30
8	DECATUR	07/18/1965	19:00	F	0	0	0.10	30
9	DECATUR	06/14/1970	14:30	F3	0	5	17.20	800
10	DECATUR	09/05/1972	17:18	F1	0	0	0.50	150
11	DECATUR	09/05/1972	17:18	F2	0	0	2.30	240
12	DECATUR	06/24/1982	14:46	F0	0	0	0.10	30
13	DECATUR	05/05/1983	21:00	F0	0	0	0.50	90
14	DECATUR	06/12/1983	16:15	F0	0	0	0.10	30
15	DECATUR	06/12/1983	17:00	F2	0	0	15.00	600
16	DECATUR	05/18/1990	17:50	F1	0	0	3.00	150
17	DECATUR	09/06/1992	19:52	F0	0	0	0.10	30
18	DECATUR	09/06/1992	21:30	F0	0	0	0.10	30
19	DECATUR	09/06/1992	21:35	F0	0	0	0.10	30
20	DECATUR	03/28/1993	17:50	F0	0	0	5.00	20
21	DECATUR	06/26/1993	13:20	F0	M	M	0.20	60
22	DECATUR	06/26/1993	14:00	F1	M	M	2.00	90
23	DECATUR	06/26/1993	16:00	F0	M	M	0.20	60
24	Oberlin	05/22/1996	20:30	F1	0	0	4.00	50
25	Oberlin	06/06/1996	03:55	F0	0	0	0.10	20
26	Oberlin	07/15/1996	21:20	F0	0	0	0.20	20
27	Jennings	07/15/1996	21:40	F0	0	0	0.20	30
28	Oberlin	08/10/1996	20:30	F0	0	0	0.20	30
29	Oberlin	04/14/1998	15:06	F1	0	0	1.20	50
30	Oberlin	04/14/1998	15:15	F1	0	0	7.50	200
31	Oberlin	04/14/1998	15:25	F0	0	0	0.10	50
32	Oberlin	04/14/1998	16:04	F1	0	0	0.20	50
33	Oberlin	10/31/2000	15:53	F0	0	0	4.00	120
34	Oberlin	10/31/2000	16:38	F1	0	0	4.00	125
35	Oberlin	06/19/2002	17:15	F1	0	0	2.00	100
36	Dresden	06/04/2004	20:50	F0	0	0	0.20	50
37	Jennings	06/04/2004	21:09	F0	0	0	0.20	50
38	Oberlin	06/09/2005	15:31	F0	0	0	1.50	25
39	Oberlin	06/09/2005	15:45	F0	0	0	0.75	25
40	Jennings	03/28/2007	18:05	F0	0	0	8.00	25
41	Leoville	05/22/2008	16:11	F1	0	0	17.00	400
42	Oberlin	05/22/2008	16:48	F1	0	0	13.00	300
43	Dresden	05/22/2008	17:31	F1	0	0	35.00	400
44	Norcatur	06/20/2011	17:25	F0	0	0	0.50	10
45	Norcatur	06/20/2011	17:45	F0	0	0	0.50	10
46	Leoville	05/09/2015	21:08	F0	0	0	9.56	150
47	Oberlin	05/09/2015	21:43	F1	0	0	11.74	50
48	Cedar Bluffs	05/26/2021	17:41	EFU	0	0	1.5	50
49	Leoville	04/23/2022	00:42	EF1	0	0	0.93	125
50	Lyle	05/17/2022	15:43	EFU	0	0	1.84	100
51	Oberlin	06/04/2022	20:01	EFU	0	0	3.32	75

Totals

Total Tornado

EFU

Updated: July 2023

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