Tornado, Allen
- When
- May 4, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Allen County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.770, -95.480
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 4, 1977
8 hail, 5 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $5.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
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
8 hail, 5 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Allen
- When
- May 4, 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Allen County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.920, -95.400
Hail, Allen
- When
- May 4, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- Allen County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.920, -95.400
Tornado, Miami
- When
- May 4, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.450, -94.800
Hail, Osage
- When
- May 4, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.820, -95.630
Hail, Osage
- When
- May 4, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.750, -95.830
Hail, Douglas
- When
- May 4, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.920, -95.380
Hail, Douglas
- When
- May 4, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.900, -95.230
Tornado, Douglas
- When
- May 4, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 16.9 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 38.800, -95.370
Thunderstorm Wind, Douglas
- When
- May 4, 6:18 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Coordinates
- 38.850, -95.270
Tornado, Johnson
- When
- May 4, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 7.8 mi
- Path width
- 70 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -94.800
Tornado, Johnson
- When
- May 4, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 14.7 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 38.800, -95.050
Hail, Johnson
- When
- May 4, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.920, -94.820
Hail, Wyandotte
- When
- May 4, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Wyandotte County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -94.970
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.
- 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 Hail in Missouri, May 4, 1977
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 4, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 4, 1977
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, May 4, 1977
- Tornadoes in Indiana, May 4, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 4, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 4, 1977
- Damaging Winds in Florida, May 4, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, May 4, 1977
- Hail in Texas, May 4, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 4, 1977
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: 10021537, 10021538, 10021539, 10021540, 10021541, 10021542, 10021543, 10021544, 10021545, 10021546, 10021547, 10021548, 10021549, 10021550.