Tornado, Cuming
- When
- July 8, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cuming County
- Path length
- 1.2 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.880, -96.720
Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 8, 1968
3 hail, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
3 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Clay
- When
- July 8, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.380, -98.000
Hail, Saline
- When
- July 8, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -97.080
Hail, Otoe
- When
- July 8, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Otoe County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -96.180
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 8, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 8, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 8, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 8, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 8, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 8, 1968
- Hail in Missouri, July 8, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 8, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 8, 1968
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 8, 1968
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 8, 1968
- Hail in Montana, July 8, 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: 10065550, 10065551, 10065552, 10065553.