Tornado, Finney
- When
- March 16, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 37.950, -100.920
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, March 16, 1965
5 hail, 4 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
- 5
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 hail, 4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Sumner
- When
- March 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 11.5 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -97.320
Tornado, Cowley
- When
- March 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cowley County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 19.7 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 37.120, -97.170
Hail, Sumner
- When
- March 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -97.400
Hail, Cowley
- When
- March 16, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cowley County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.200, -97.000
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- March 16, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -97.280
Tornado, Butler
- When
- March 16, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.380, -96.600
Hail, Johnson
- When
- March 16, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.780, -94.900
Hail, Johnson
- When
- March 16, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.780, -94.900
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
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: 10028145, 10028146, 10028147, 10028148, 10028149, 10028150, 10028151, 10028152, 10028153.