Hail, Rawlins
- When
- May 24, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rawlins County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.880, -100.780
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 24, 1957
3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Sumner
- When
- May 24, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.400, -97.300
Thunderstorm Wind, Sedgwick
- When
- May 24, 8:13 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -97.400
Tornado, Cherokee
- When
- May 24, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.020, -94.730
Tornado, Sumner
- When
- May 24, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.450, -97.220
Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee
- When
- May 24, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Coordinates
- 37.080, -94.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee
- When
- May 24, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Coordinates
- 37.200, -94.680
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 24, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 24, 1957
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 24, 1957
- Tornadoes in Colorado, May 24, 1957
- Tornado in Wyoming, May 24, 1957
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 24, 1957
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 1957
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 24, 1957
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1957Every state in 1957This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1957
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10027755, 10027756, 10027757, 10027758, 10027759, 10027760, 10027761.