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Graham County Kansas

 

The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Graham County since 1950.  The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year.  For example, five tornadoes occurred in 2005 and one tornado occurred in 2018.  Between 1980 and 1992, no tornadoes were reported in the county.  More information about the tornadoes occurring in each year is given in the table at the bottom of this page. No tornadoes occurred in Graham county in 2024.

 

 

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Graham County.  The number of tornado days are shown in orange.  A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred.  Since 1950, 23 tornadoes have occurred in June, as shown by the blue bar.  The orange bar shows that there have been 14 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 Graham 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.  

43 TORNADOES were reported in Graham County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2023
Number Location Date Time Scale Fatality Injury Length Width
Pre-1950 GRAHAM  04/26/1938 M F2  0 0 25 M
Pre-1950 GRAHAM  05/23/1939 20:30 F2  0 0 10 M
Pre-1950 GRAHAM  08/23/1940 20:00 F2  0 0 M M
Number Location Date Time Scale Fatality Injury Length Width
1 GRAHAM  06/25/1950 21:00 F0 0 0 0.10 30
2 GRAHAM  06/07/1953 13:00 F0 0 0 10.90 30
3 GRAHAM  06/07/1953 13:00 F1 0 0 0.10 30
4 GRAHAM  06/07/1953 13:00 F2 0 0 0.10 30
5 GRAHAM  06/04/1955 19:38 F0 0 0 0.10 30
6 GRAHAM  06/04/1955 19:38 F0 0 0 0.10 30
7 GRAHAM  07/05/1956 15:00 F0 0 0 0.10 30
8 GRAHAM  05/13/1957 12:14 F0 0 0 0.10 30
9 GRAHAM  05/29/1959 17:00 F2 0 0 5.60 230
10 GRAHAM  06/05/1959 17:00 F1 0 0 0.10 30
11 GRAHAM  05/18/1960 17:16 F1 0 0 6.90 300
12 GRAHAM  08/12/1961 19:30 F2 0 0 21.60 900
13 GRAHAM  06/14/1967 19:55 F0 0 0 0.10 30
14 GRAHAM  06/24/1969 19:15 F3 0 0 47.00 700
15 GRAHAM  06/15/1970 19:00 F2 0 0 1.50 600
16 GRAHAM  06/22/1971 14:25 F1 0 0 0.40 30
17 GRAHAM  04/19/1979 17:43 F2 0 0 5.20 400
18 GRAHAM  06/16/1979 23:30 F1 0 0 4.90 100
19 GRAHAM  07/04/1993 20:08 F1 M M 0.30 60
20 Studley  05/12/1995 15:50 F1 0 0    
21 Morland  07/15/1996 22:15 F0 0 0 0.20 30
22 Hill City  06/11/1997 21:04 F0 0 0 0.10 50
23 St Peter  10/28/2000 15:32 F0 0 0 0.70 50
24 Morland  10/28/2000 15:50 F0 0 0 0.50 50
25 Hill City  06/09/2003 18:45 F0 0 0 2.00 75
26 Hill City  06/09/2003 19:12 F0 0 0 1.00 20
27 St Peter  04/10/2005 16:00 F0 0 0 0.30 25
28 St Peter  04/10/2005 16:00 F1 0 0 2.00 25
29 Hill City  06/09/2005 15:20 F2 0 0 0.30 25
30 Hill City  06/09/2005 15:45 F0 0 0 0.60 25
31 Hill City  06/09/2005 15:46 F0 0 0 9.50 440
32 Hill City  05/22/2007 17:48 F0 0 0 2.00 20
33 Hill City  05/22/2007 18:10 F0 0 0 2.50 50
34 Studley  05/23/2008 16:10 F1 0 0 14.00 400
35 St Peter  06/20/2011 12:12 F0 0 0 4.75 25
36 Hill City  06/20/2011 12:54 F3 0 0 12.00 600
37 Hill City  06/20/2011 12:57 F1 0 0 0.60 25
38 Hill City  06/20/2011 13:05 F1 0 0 0.90 25
39 St. Peter 05/09/2015 18:55 F0 0 0 2.8 50
40 Morland 10/01/2017 16:53 F0 0 0 3.4 100
41 Hill City 10/01/2017 17:30 F0 0 0 0.59 100
42 12 S Hill City 5/28/2018 13:19 F0 0 0 4.48 100
43 Hill City 06/09/2022 23:11 EFU 0 0 1.36 100
  Totals       0 0    
                 
                 
  Total Tornado EFU F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5
  43 1 23 11 6 2 0 0

 

Updated: Updated July 2023