Tornado, Cherry
- When
- July 27, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 42.620, -101.530
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 27, 1972
2 tornado, 1 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $28,000
- 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
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Thomas
- When
- July 27, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.780, -100.780
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- July 27, 6:28 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.200, -101.000
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 Kansas, July 27, 1972
- Tornado in Virginia, July 27, 1972
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, July 27, 1972
- Tornado in Idaho, July 27, 1972
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 27, 1972
- Hail in Colorado, July 27, 1972
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 27, 1972
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 27, 1972
- Tornado in Minnesota, July 27, 1972
- Tornado in Wyoming, July 27, 1972
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1972Every state in 1972This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1972
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: 10064848, 10064849, 10064850.