Tornado, Franklin
- When
- May 31, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.670, -95.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 1958
3 tornado, 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
- $75,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Franklin
- When
- May 31, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.730, -95.220
Hail, Shawnee
- When
- May 31, 7:32 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.200, -95.580
Tornado, Labette
- When
- May 31, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Labette County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -95.200
What these are
- 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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornadoes in Indiana, May 31, 1958
- Tornado in Wisconsin, May 31, 1958
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, May 31, 1958
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 31, 1958
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 31, 1958
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Idaho, May 31, 1958
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 31, 1958
- Hail in Nebraska, May 31, 1958
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: 10028947, 10028948, 10028949, 10028950.