Tornado, Rawlins
- When
- June 17, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Rawlins County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.980, -100.800
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 17, 1968
5 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Rawlins
- When
- June 17, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Rawlins County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -100.780
Hail, Rawlins
- When
- June 17, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Rawlins County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -100.780
Hail, Sherman
- When
- June 17, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sherman County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.200, -101.500
Hail, Decatur
- When
- June 17, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Decatur County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -100.580
Hail, Decatur
- When
- June 17, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Decatur County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -100.580
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Louisiana, June 17, 1968
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 17, 1968
- Tornado in Georgia, June 17, 1968
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, June 17, 1968
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 17, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 17, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 17, 1968
- Hail in South Dakota, June 17, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 17, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 17, 1968
- Hail in Minnesota, June 17, 1968
- Hail in Iowa, June 17, 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: 10021062, 10021063, 10021064, 10021065, 10021066, 10021067.