Tornado, Hamilton
- When
- May 20, 1:41 PM CST to 1:59 PM CST
- Where
- Hamilton County, 10 mi N of Syracuse
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.133, -101.750
Nearly stationary landspout.
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 20, 2000
1 tornado, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:43 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Rush
- When
- May 20, 5:17 PM CST
- Where
- Rush County, 2 mi N of Loretta
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.683, -99.183
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
- Heat in California, May 20 to 23, 2000
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 20, 2000
- Flood and Hail in North Carolina, May 20, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 20, 2000
- Hail in Texas, May 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 20, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 20, 2000
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 20, 2000
- Hail in Colorado, May 20, 2000
- Hail in Nebraska, May 20, 2000
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 20, 2000
- Flood in Puerto Rico, May 20, 2000
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 2000Warnings in Kansas, May 2000
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: 5149635, 5149636.