Hail, Finney
- When
- May 30, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -100.250
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 30, 1978
9 hail, 3 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $750,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 13
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
9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Gray
- When
- May 30, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.820, -100.500
Hail, Osborne
- When
- May 30, 5:05 PM CST
- Where
- Osborne County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.470, -98.950
Tornado, Finney
- When
- May 30, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11.7 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.070, -100.700
Hail, Ford
- When
- May 30, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -99.670
Hail, Hodgeman
- When
- May 30, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hodgeman County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -99.750
Hail, Jewell
- When
- May 30, 5:48 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.800, -98.220
Tornado, Gray
- When
- May 30, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 16.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -100.500
Hail, Graham
- When
- May 30, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Graham County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.330, -99.850
Tornado, Ford
- When
- May 30, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 37.900, -100.220
Thunderstorm Wind, Ford
- When
- May 30, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Coordinates
- 37.820, -100.270
Hail, Ford
- When
- May 30, 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.880, -100.120
Hail, Finney
- When
- May 30, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.970, -100.150
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
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: 10023934, 10023935, 10023936, 10023937, 10023938, 10023939, 10023940, 10023941, 10023942, 10023943, 10023944, 10023945, 10023946.