Hail, Clay
- When
- July 7, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.250, -97.330
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, July 7, 1987
9 hail, 4 tornado, 4 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
- $278,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 17
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, 4 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Shawnee
- When
- July 7, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Shawnee County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.980, -95.920
Tornado, Lane
- When
- July 7, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lane County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.400, -100.570
Hail, Ottawa
- When
- July 7, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Ottawa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.280, -97.700
Hail, Dickinson
- When
- July 7, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Dickinson County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.920, -97.220
Hail, Clay
- When
- July 7, 7:55 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.170, -97.320
Hail, Ottawa
- When
- July 7, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Ottawa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.280, -97.830
Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln
- When
- July 7, 8:48 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.030, -98.150
Hail, Saline
- When
- July 7, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.900, -97.520
Hail, Ness
- When
- July 7, 9:08 PM CST
- Where
- Ness County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.430, -100.220
Tornado, Scott
- When
- July 7, 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.620, -100.730
Hail, Wichita
- When
- July 7, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -101.350
Thunderstorm Wind, Lane
- When
- July 7, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Lane County
- Coordinates
- 38.580, -100.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Hamilton
- When
- July 7, 9:43 PM CST
- Where
- Hamilton County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 38.120, -101.750
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- July 7, 10:24 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.030, -98.150
Thunderstorm Wind, Logan
- When
- July 7, 10:47 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -101.150
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- July 7, 11:03 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.550, -99.320
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
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, July 7, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, July 7, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, July 7, 1987
- Tornado in South Dakota, July 7, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 7, 1987
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 7, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 7, 1987
- Hail in Maryland, July 7, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 7, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 7, 1987
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1987Warnings in Kansas, July 1987
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: 10036350, 10036351, 10036352, 10036353, 10036354, 10036355, 10036356, 10036357, 10036358, 10037214, 10037215, 10037429, 10037430, 10037431, 10037432, 10037433, 10037434.