Tornado, Wallace
- When
- May 3, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wallace County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.100, -101.720
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 3, 1989
14 hail, 1 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 15
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
14 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Graham
- When
- May 3, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Graham County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.370, -99.850
Hail, Finney
- When
- May 3, 6:14 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.980, -100.980
Hail, Finney
- When
- May 3, 6:28 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.220, -100.730
Hail, Finney
- When
- May 3, 6:58 PM CST
- Where
- Finney County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.100, -100.450
Hail, Gray
- When
- May 3, 7:13 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.730, -100.270
Hail, Scott
- When
- May 3, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.350, -100.830
Hail, Ford
- When
- May 3, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.780, -100.180
Hail, Ford
- When
- May 3, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.880, -99.800
Hail, Hodgeman
- When
- May 3, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hodgeman County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.970, -99.750
Hail, Ford
- When
- May 3, 8:17 PM CST
- Where
- Ford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -100.020
Hail, Jewell
- When
- May 3, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.930, -98.030
Hail, Republic
- When
- May 3, 9:53 PM CST
- Where
- Republic County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.920, -97.820
Hail, Republic
- When
- May 3, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Republic County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -97.900
Hail, Republic
- When
- May 3, 10:22 PM CST
- Where
- Republic County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.920, -97.500
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: 10035820, 10035821, 10035822, 10035823, 10035824, 10035825, 10035826, 10035827, 10035828, 10035829, 10035830, 10035831, 10035832, 10035833, 10035834.