Decatur County Kansas
The blue bars in the chart below show the number of tornadoes occurring in each month. The red bars indicate the number of tornado days in each month. A tornado day is defined as a day in which tornadoes occurred. To help illustrate this concept, look at the month of April below. The blue bar indicates that since 1950 a total of four tornadoes have occurred in April. The red bar indicates that there has been only one day in April when tornadoes occurred. This means that all four tornadoes occurred on the same day.
In the table below, Width is in yards, Length is in miles. Property and Crop damage is in thousands of dollars.
| 42 TORNADOES were reported in Decatur County, KS ... 01/01/1950 - 08/25/2008 | ||||||||
| Number | Location | Date | Time | Scale | Fatality | Injury | Width | Length |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 04/28/1884 | 14:00 | F2 | 0 | 0 | M | M |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 04/20/1885 | 19:30 | F2 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 11 |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 05/20/1891 | 12:30 | F3 | 0 | 0 | 400 | 8 |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 05/09/1905 | 17:00 | F2 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 15 |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 04/30/1906 | 16:20 | F3 | 1 | 4 | 600 | 20 |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 05/25/1917 | 12:30 | F2 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 4 |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 04/29/1942 | 22:30 | F5 | 15 | 25 | 300 | 20 |
| Pre-1950 | DECATUR | 05/20/1949 | 16:15 | F2 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 4 |
| Number | Location | Date | Time | Scale | Fatality | Injury | Property | Crop |
| 1 | DECATUR | 07/06/1952 | 15:00 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DECATUR | 05/27/1953 | 17:00 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DECATUR | 07/04/1958 | 17:15 | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DECATUR | 06/10/1960 | 19:40 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | DECATUR | 05/17/1962 | 16:30 | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DECATUR | 06/05/1965 | 16:15 | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | DECATUR | 07/18/1965 | 19:00 | F | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | DECATUR | 06/14/1970 | 14:45 | F3 | 0 | 5 | 2500 | 0 |
| 9 | DECATUR | 09/05/1972 | 17:18 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | DECATUR | 09/05/1972 | 17:18 | F2 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 0 |
| 11 | DECATUR | 06/24/1982 | 14:46 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | DECATUR | 05/05/1983 | 21:00 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 0 |
| 13 | DECATUR | 06/12/1983 | 16:15 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | DECATUR | 06/12/1983 | 17:00 | F2 | 0 | 0 | 2500 | 0 |
| 15 | DECATUR | 05/18/1990 | 17:50 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| 16 | DECATUR | 09/06/1992 | 19:52 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | DECATUR | 09/06/1992 | 21:30 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | DECATUR | 09/06/1992 | 21:35 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | DECATUR | 03/28/1993 | 17:50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DECATUR | 06/26/1993 | 13:20 | F0 | M | M | M | M |
| 21 | DECATUR | 06/26/1993 | 14:00 | F1 | M | M | M | M |
| 22 | DECATUR | 06/26/1993 | 16:00 | F0 | M | M | M | M |
| 23 | Oberlin | 05/22/1996 | 20:30 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Oberlin | 06/06/1996 | 03:55 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Oberlin | 07/15/1996 | 21:20 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Jennings | 07/15/1996 | 21:40 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Oberlin | 08/10/1996 | 20:30 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Oberlin | 04/14/1998 | 15:06 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 29 | Oberlin | 04/14/1998 | 15:15 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | Oberlin | 04/14/1998 | 15:25 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Oberlin | 04/14/1998 | 16:04 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 32 | Oberlin | 10/31/2000 | 15:59 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Oberlin | 10/31/2000 | 16:38 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Oberlin | 06/19/2002 | 17:15 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 35 | Dresden | 06/04/2004 | 20:50 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Jennings | 06/04/2004 | 21:09 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Oberlin | 06/09/2005 | 15:31 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Oberlin | 06/09/2005 | 15:45 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Jennings | 03/28/2007 | 18:05 | F0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
| 40 | Leoville | 05/22/2008 | 16:17 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 0 |
| 41 | Oberlin | 05/22/2008 | 16:48 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 1000 | 0 |
| 42 | Dresden | 05/22/2008 | 17:31 | F1 | 0 | 0 | 1500 | 0 |
| TOTALS: | 0 | 5 | 8331 | 0 | ||||
| Total Tornado | F | F0 | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | |
| 42 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
