Hail, Perkins
- When
- May 20, 1:20 PM CST
- Where
- Perkins County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.850, -101.380
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 20, 1974
7 hail, 2 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cherry
- When
- May 20, 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.570, -100.720
Hail,
- When
- May 20, 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -101.370
Hail, McPherson
- When
- May 20, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- McPherson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -100.970
Hail, Cherry
- When
- May 20, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.570, -100.720
Hail, Cherry
- When
- May 20, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.850, -100.600
Tornado, Thomas
- When
- May 20, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.980, -100.500
Hail, Loup
- When
- May 20, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- Loup County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.770, -99.380
Tornado, Custer
- When
- May 20, 7:47 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -99.450
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 20, 1974
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, May 20, 1974
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 20, 1974
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, May 20, 1974
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 20, 1974
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 20, 1974
- Hail in Kansas, May 20, 1974
- Hail in Georgia, May 20, 1974
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1974Every state in 1974This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1974
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: 10068305, 10068306, 10068307, 10068308, 10068309, 10068310, 10068311, 10068312, 10068313.