Tornado, Butler
- When
- April 16, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 37.800, -96.830
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 16, 1960
5 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
5 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Butler
- When
- April 16, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.600, -97.130
Tornado, Franklin
- When
- April 16, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 9.2 mi
- Path width
- 77 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -95.280
Tornado, Butler
- When
- April 16, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 37.520, -97.050
Hail, Sumner
- When
- April 16, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.280, -97.400
Tornado, Elk
- When
- April 16, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Elk County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.570, -96.250
Thunderstorm Wind, Neosho
- When
- April 16, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Neosho County
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -95.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee
- When
- April 16, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Coordinates
- 37.280, -95.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Neosho
- When
- April 16, 8:02 PM CST
- Where
- Neosho County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -95.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Montgomery
- When
- April 16, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Coordinates
- 37.380, -95.780
Hail, Crawford
- When
- April 16, 9:50 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.380, -94.680
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.
- 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 Iowa, April 16, 1960
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 16, 1960
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 16, 1960
- Tornadoes in Indiana, April 16, 1960
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, April 16, 1960
- Tornado in Michigan, April 16, 1960
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, April 16, 1960
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: 10025655, 10025656, 10025657, 10025658, 10025659, 10025660, 10025661, 10025662, 10025663, 10025664, 10025665.