Friday, Oct 9: Kansas has no severe risk in the outlook through Sunday.
The Storm Prediction Center's outlook for Kansas over the next three days, the SevereWX forecast for each Kansas city we cover, and what a typical severe weather year looks like here.
Kansas averages 80.6 tornadoes a year (1996–2025), about 6.4 of them rated EF2 or stronger.
77% of them touch down between April and June, and May alone accounts for 43%. The busiest year on record in that span was 2008, with 185.
Storm reports average about 740 for large hail a year (84.3 of them 2 inches or larger) and 749 for damaging wind (2016–2025).
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database. Tornadoes are counted in the state where they began. One storm can produce many reports. spc.noaa.gov