Tornado, Morrill
- When
- May 24, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Morrill County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.850, -103.070
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 24, 1960
2 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
- $28,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Sheridan
- When
- May 24, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sheridan County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.700, -102.680
Tornado, Boyd
- When
- May 24, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Boyd County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 42.920, -98.830
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
- Tornado in Texas, May 24, 1960
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 24, 1960
- Tornado in Wyoming, May 24, 1960
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 24, 1960
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 24, 1960
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 24, 1960
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 24, 1960
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 24, 1960
- Hail in Missouri, May 24, 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: 10070617, 10070618, 10070619.