Hail, Graham
- When
- June 11, 1:25 AM CST
- Where
- Graham County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.380, -99.780
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 11, 1959
4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Rooks
- When
- June 11, 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Rooks County
- Coordinates
- 39.200, -99.280
Tornado, Wyandotte
- When
- June 11, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wyandotte County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.170, -94.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Wyandotte
- When
- June 11, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wyandotte County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -94.680
Hail, Johnson
- When
- June 11, 3:47 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -94.780
Hail, Wyandotte
- When
- June 11, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Wyandotte County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -94.680
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- June 11, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.780, -97.280
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- 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
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, June 11, 1959
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, June 11, 1959
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, June 11, 1959
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 11, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 11, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 11, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 11, 1959
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 11, 1959
- Hail in Colorado, June 11, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 11, 1959
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1959Every state in 1959This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1959
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: 10028966, 10028967, 10028968, 10028969, 10028970, 10028971, 10028972.