Tornado, Seward
- When
- May 15, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Seward County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 37.230, -100.930
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 15, 1982
12 hail, 4 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
- $120
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 16
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
12 hail, 4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Seward
- When
- May 15, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Seward County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.180, -100.850
Hail, Meade
- When
- May 15, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.230, -100.370
Hail, Gray
- When
- May 15, 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.730, -100.450
Hail, Seward
- When
- May 15, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Seward County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.130, -100.930
Hail, Franklin
- When
- May 15, 9:09 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.620, -95.270
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- May 15, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.620, -97.270
Hail, Pratt
- When
- May 15, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Pratt County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -99.000
Hail, Osage
- When
- May 15, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -95.750
Hail, Pratt
- When
- May 15, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pratt County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.520, -98.830
Hail, Lyon
- When
- May 15, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lyon County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.400, -96.180
Hail, Barber
- When
- May 15, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Barber County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.300, -98.700
Tornado, Johnson
- When
- May 15, 10:25 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 38.750, -94.820
Tornado, Miami
- When
- May 15, 10:28 PM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 38.650, -94.680
Tornado, Miami
- When
- May 15, 11:06 PM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 38.570, -94.970
Hail, Shawnee
- When
- May 15, 11:35 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -95.680
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.
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: 10022975, 10022976, 10022977, 10022978, 10022979, 10022980, 10022981, 10022982, 10022983, 10022984, 10022985, 10022986, 10022987, 10022988, 10022989, 10022990.