Tornado, Haskell
- When
- May 3, 3:13 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 37.430, -100.970
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 3, 1987
2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 5
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
2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Osage
- When
- May 3, 4:07 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.780, -95.550
Thunderstorm Wind, Grant
- When
- May 3, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.580, -101.370
Thunderstorm Wind, Stanton
- When
- May 3, 4:25 PM CST
- Where
- Stanton County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.400, -101.570
Tornado, Finney
- When
- May 3, 5:07 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.920, -100.870
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 3, 1987
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 3, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 3, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 3, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 3, 1987
- Hail in North Carolina, May 3, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 3, 1987
- Hail in South Carolina, May 3, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 3, 1987
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1987Warnings in Kansas, May 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: 10036254, 10036255, 10036256, 10036257, 10036258.