Hail, Seward
- When
- July 27, 4:27 PM CST
- Where
- Seward County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -100.900
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, July 27, 1971
7 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 11
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
7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Scott
- When
- July 27, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -100.680
Tornado, Finney
- When
- July 27, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.230, -100.700
Thunderstorm Wind, Finney
- When
- July 27, 6:26 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 78 kt (90 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.880, -100.680
Hail, Finney
- When
- July 27, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.880, -100.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Meade
- When
- July 27, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Coordinates
- 37.280, -100.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Kingman
- When
- July 27, 8:35 PM CST
- Where
- Kingman County
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -98.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Harper
- When
- July 27, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Coordinates
- 37.280, -98.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Sedgwick
- When
- July 27, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -97.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Dickinson
- When
- July 27, 10:20 PM CST
- Where
- Dickinson County
- Coordinates
- 38.700, -97.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Lyon
- When
- July 27, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lyon County
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Coordinates
- 38.280, -96.180
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 27, 1971
- Tornado and Hail in New Mexico, July 27, 1971
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 27, 1971
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 27, 1971
- Hail in Oklahoma, July 27, 1971
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 27, 1971
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 27, 1971
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1971Every state in 1971This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1971
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: 10023255, 10023256, 10023257, 10024117, 10024118, 10024119, 10024120, 10024337, 10024338, 10024339, 10024340.