Tornado, Seward
- When
- July 17, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Seward County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.070, -100.930
Tornado in Kansas, July 17, 1981
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
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
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Idaho, July 17, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 17, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 17, 1981
- Hail in Minnesota, July 17, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 17, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Florida, July 17, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 17, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 17, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 17, 1981
- Hail in Wyoming, July 17, 1981
- Hail in Georgia, July 17, 1981
- Hail in Utah, July 17, 1981
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: 10020681.