Hail, Shawnee
- When
- May 5, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -95.680
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 5, 1977
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
- $3,000
- 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.
Tornado, Shawnee
- When
- May 5, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 38.950, -95.630
Hail, Harper
- When
- May 5, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -98.030
Hail, Shawnee
- When
- May 5, 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -95.680
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 Hail in Illinois, May 5, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 5, 1977
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 5, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 5, 1977
- Hail in Missouri, May 5, 1977
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 5, 1977
- Hail in Tennessee, May 5, 1977
- Tornado in Iowa, May 5, 1977
- Hail in Virginia, May 5, 1977
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 5, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 5, 1977
- Tornado in Indiana, May 5, 1977
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1977Every state in 1977This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1977
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: 10021551, 10021552, 10021553, 10021554.