Hail, Thomas
- When
- May 14, 1:50 AM CST
- Where
- Thomas County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -101.050
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 14, 1990
14 hail, 8 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
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 22
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, 8 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 5:58 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.120, -96.180
Hail, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 6:22 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.030, -96.300
Hail, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 7:12 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.030, -96.430
Tornado, Sumner
- When
- May 14, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.280, -97.270
Tornado, Sumner
- When
- May 14, 8:21 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -97.170
Tornado, Sumner
- When
- May 14, 8:33 PM CST
- Where
- Sumner County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.270, -97.200
Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 8:48 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -96.180
Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 9:10 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -96.020
Tornado, Montgomery
- When
- May 14, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.030, -95.950
Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.080, -96.020
Hail, Butler
- When
- May 14, 9:38 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.630, -96.650
Hail, Montgomery
- When
- May 14, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -95.950
Tornado, Montgomery
- When
- May 14, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 7 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.030, -95.730
Hail, Chautauqua
- When
- May 14, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Measured
- 3 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -96.280
Hail, Harper
- When
- May 14, 9:56 PM CST
- Where
- Harper County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.230, -98.230
Hail, Chase
- When
- May 14, 10:25 PM CST
- Where
- Chase County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.370, -96.530
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- May 14, 10:51 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.670, -97.680
Hail, Pottawatomie
- When
- May 14, 11:17 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.200, -96.320
Hail, Dickinson
- When
- May 14, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dickinson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.750, -97.220
Hail, Butler
- When
- May 14, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.780, -97.170
Hail, Butler
- When
- May 14, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.820, -96.870
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.
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: 10035468, 10035469, 10035470, 10035471, 10035472, 10035473, 10035474, 10035475, 10035476, 10035477, 10035478, 10035479, 10035480, 10035481, 10035482, 10035483, 10035484, 10035485, 10035486, 10035487, 10035488, 10035489.