Hail, Shawnee
- When
- May 26, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -95.780
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 26, 1964
9 hail, 1 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
- $25,000
- 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
9 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Johnson
- When
- May 26, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -94.680
Hail, Johnson
- When
- May 26, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -94.680
Hail,
- When
- May 26, 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -94.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Miami
- When
- May 26, 3:14 PM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 38.700, -94.680
Hail, Johnson
- When
- May 26, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -94.680
Hail, Wyandotte
- When
- May 26, 3:23 PM CST
- Where
- Wyandotte County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -94.680
Tornado, Coffey
- When
- May 26, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Coffey County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.270, -95.730
Hail, Johnson
- When
- May 26, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.780, -94.680
Hail,
- When
- May 26, 3:42 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -94.500
Hail, Ellsworth
- When
- May 26, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ellsworth County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -98.280
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
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1964Every state in 1964This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1964
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: 10026369, 10026370, 10026371, 10026372, 10026373, 10026374, 10026375, 10026376, 10026377, 10026378, 10026379.