Tornado, Wichita
- When
- May 13, 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 3.6 mi
- Path width
- 320 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.430, -101.170
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 13, 1968
5 tornado, 5 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
- 5
- Property damage
- $103,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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 tornado, 5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Scott
- When
- May 13, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 106.8 mi
- Path width
- 320 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -101.130
Tornado, Rooks
- When
- May 13, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rooks County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 16.9 mi
- Path width
- 320 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.130, -99.330
Hail, Gove
- When
- May 13, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gove County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.780, -100.500
Hail, Osborne
- When
- May 13, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Osborne County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.380, -98.680
Hail, Lane
- When
- May 13, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lane County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -100.500
Tornado, Osborne
- When
- May 13, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Osborne County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 13.1 mi
- Path width
- 320 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.220, -99.030
Tornado, Mitchell
- When
- May 13, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.7 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -98.100
Hail, Cloud
- When
- May 13, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Cloud County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -97.680
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- May 13, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.200, -98.400
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: 10024861, 10024862, 10024863, 10024864, 10024865, 10024866, 10024867, 10024868, 10024869, 10024870.