Tornado, Hodgeman
- When
- July 22, 4:04 PM CST
- Where
- Hodgeman County
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 38.200, -99.900
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, July 22, 1968
1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $3,000
- 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
1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Pawnee
- When
- July 22, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.200, -99.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Smith
- When
- July 22, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -98.580
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 22, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 22, 1968
- Hail in Colorado, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 22, 1968
- Hail in South Dakota, July 22, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 22, 1968
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: 10022184, 10022185, 10022186.