Tornado, Sherman
- When
- May 19, 5:52 PM CST
- Where
- Sherman County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -101.970
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 19, 1982
3 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- $2.5 million
- 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 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Sherman
- When
- May 19, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sherman County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.070, -101.720
Hail, Sherman
- When
- May 19, 8:07 PM CST
- Where
- Sherman County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.250, -101.600
Tornado, Thomas
- When
- May 19, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.430, -101.430
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 19, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Colorado, May 19, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Vermont, May 19, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 19, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 19, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 19, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 19, 1982
- Hail in Indiana, May 19, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, May 19, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 19, 1982
- Hail in Pennsylvania, May 19, 1982
- Hail in Virginia, May 19, 1982
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: 10022998, 10022999, 10023000, 10023001.