Hail, Franklin
- When
- May 20, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.280, -98.900
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 20, 1957
7 tornado, 3 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
- $278,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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
7 tornado, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Webster
- When
- May 20, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 40.100, -98.520
Tornado, Custer
- When
- May 20, 2:17 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.7 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 41.430, -99.620
Tornado, Nuckolls
- When
- May 20, 2:20 PM CST
- Where
- Nuckolls County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 40.070, -98.270
Tornado, Custer
- When
- May 20, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.600, -99.930
Hail, Frontier
- When
- May 20, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Frontier County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -100.180
Tornado, Thayer
- When
- May 20, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Thayer County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 75.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.070, -97.500
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- May 20, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 3.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -97.080
Tornado, Hall
- When
- May 20, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 18.2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -98.370
Tornado, Saline
- When
- May 20, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 23.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.680, -97.250
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
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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: 10069878, 10069879, 10069880, 10069881, 10069882, 10069883, 10069884, 10069885, 10069886, 10069887.