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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Douglass, 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 Douglass, Kansas since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 175 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 16 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
175

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
16

119 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Douglass

By decade

  • 2020s4(1 EF3+)
  • 2010s25(1 EF3+)
  • 2000s29(1 EF3+)
  • 1990s39(6 EF3+)
  • 1980s18(1 EF3+)
  • 1970s14
  • 1960s21(3 EF3+)
  • 1950s25(3 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Douglass, Kansas
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
May 25, 1955F514 mi56.4 mi80 / 273
Apr 26, 1991F515 mi46 mi17 / 225
Jun 10, 1958F423 mi9 mi15 / 5
May 3, 1999F420 mi24 mi6 / 150
Apr 26, 1991F416 mi25 mi1 / 0
Mar 16, 1965F420 mi82.7 mi0 / 7
Apr 29, 2022EF313 mi12.65 mi0 / 3
Apr 14, 2012EF316 mi13.2 mi0 / 38
Jun 12, 2004F312 mi4 mi0 / 2
May 16, 1991F313 mi20 mi0 / 0
Mar 26, 1991F323 mi15 mi0 / 6
Mar 26, 1991F324 mi67 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 175, 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 Douglass 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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