Tornado, Trego
- When
- May 10, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Trego County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.930, -99.630
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 10, 1985
7 tornado, 3 hail, 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $13 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
7 tornado, 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Rooks
- When
- May 10, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Rooks County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 30 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.180, -99.520
Hail, Rooks
- When
- May 10, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Rooks County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.230, -99.430
Hail, Rooks
- When
- May 10, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Rooks County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.230, -99.300
Tornado, Rooks
- When
- May 10, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Rooks County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 1,000 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.420, -99.400
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- May 10, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 28 mi
- Path width
- 1,000 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -99.420
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- May 10, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 11 mi
- Path width
- 1,000 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.730, -99.150
Tornado, Smith
- When
- May 10, 6:44 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 1,000 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 39.930, -99.080
Hail, Smith
- When
- May 10, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.870, -98.800
Tornado, Kearny
- When
- May 10, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Kearny County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 3 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.170, -101.520
Thunderstorm Wind, Finney
- When
- May 10, 8:35 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 38.120, -100.780
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.
- 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
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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: 10024078, 10024079, 10024080, 10024081, 10024082, 10024083, 10024084, 10024085, 10024086, 10024087, 10024088.