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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Edgerton, KS

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Edgerton, Kansas since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 126 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 13 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
126

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
13

47 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Edgerton

By decade

  • 2020s5
  • 2010s17(1 EF3+)
  • 2000s23(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s15
  • 1980s11(1 EF3+)
  • 1970s8(1 EF3+)
  • 1960s23(6 EF3+)
  • 1950s24(3 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Edgerton, Kansas
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
May 20, 1957F54 mi69.4 mi44 / 207
May 4, 2003F423 mi21 mi2 / 30
May 28, 2019EF416 mi29.07 mi0 / 4
May 22, 1952F417 mi26.9 mi0 / 3
Jun 19, 1981F313 mi7.7 mi1 / 33
May 4, 1977F38 mi31.6 mi0 / 1
May 15, 1968F321 mi2.7 mi0 / 0
Apr 19, 1966F316 mi7.7 mi0 / 4
Apr 12, 1964F323 mi33.8 mi0 / 3
Aug 6, 1962F39 mi4.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 16, 1960F315 mi9.2 mi0 / 0
Apr 15, 1960F323 mi8.4 mi0 / 2

The strongest 12 of 126, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Edgerton while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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