May 17
- 1896 – A family of massive tornadoes, up to F5 intensity, with one member at least 2 miles (3.2 km) wide moved across northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska, devastating the towns of Seneca, Oneida, Sabetha, and Reserve, Kansas, killing 25 people. Farms were "left as bare as the prairie". An F2 tornado killed five people in a small home near Elva, Kentucky.