The tornado outbreak of June 15, 1992
56 tornadoesKansas, Nebraska and South Dakota
56 tornadoes touched down across 3 states between 4:15 PM and 12:38 AM the next day CDT, 6 of them rated F3 or stronger.
Watch the day unfoldTornado outbreak · June 15, 1992
How the day unfolded
Every tornado recorded that day, at its logged touchdown time and along its path, with the counties it crossed.
The day in numbers
- Tornadoes
- 56
- 58th of 12,998 tornado days since 1950
- F3 or stronger
- 6
- 2 rated F4 or F5
- Killed
- 0
- Along all the paths
- Injured
- 17
- Along all the paths
- Path miles
- 143
- All the paths end to end
- First and last
- 4:15 PM to 12:38 AM the next day
- Touchdowns, Central Daylight Time
Hour by hour
Tornadoes touching down in each hour, Central Daylight Time.
Every tornado
In order of touchdown. 2 have a record page, linked from the rating.
| 4:15 PM | F0 | Rooks County KS | 0 |
| 4:26 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 4:28 PM | F0 | Rooks County KS | 0 |
| 4:37 PM | F1 | Rooks County KS | 0 |
| 4:46 PM | F0 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 5:15 PM | F2 | Haakon County SD | 0 |
| 5:51 PM | F0 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 5:51 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 6:15 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 6:34 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 6:40 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 6:45 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 6:55 PM | F1 | Osborne County KS | 0 |
| 6:56 PM | F2 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 6:59 PM | F1 | Jewell County KS | 0 |
| 7:02 PM | F2 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:05 PM | F0 | Clark County SD | 0 |
| 7:06 PM | F1 | Jewell County KS | 0 |
| 7:07 PM | F1 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:09 PM | F2 | Jewell County KS | 0 |
| 7:10 PM | F2 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:20 PM | F1 | Hall County NE | 0 |
| 7:30 PM | F4 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:35 PM | F1 | Jewell County KS | 0 |
| 7:35 PM | F2 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:38 PM | F2 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:40 PM | F1 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:45 PM | F2 | Polk County NE | 0 |
| 7:45 PM | F3 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 7:55 PM | F2 | Hamilton County NE | 0 |
| 7:55 PM | F1 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 8:00 PM | F0 | Republic County KS | 0 |
| 8:05 PM | F1 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 8:15 PM | F0 | Colfax County NE | 0 |
| 8:15 PM | F0 | Colfax County NE | 0 |
| 8:35 PM | F1 | Mitchell County KS | 0 |
| 8:52 PM | F1 | Cloud County KS | 0 |
| 8:55 PM | F3 | Saline County, Seward County NE | 0 |
| 8:58 PM | F1 | Cloud County KS | 0 |
| 9:35 PM | F1 | Ottawa County KS | 0 |
| 9:50 PM | F0 | Day County SD | 0 |
| 9:50 PM | F1 | Cuming County NE | 0 |
| 9:52 PM | F3 | Ottawa County KS | 0 |
| 9:55 PM | F1 | Cuming County NE | 0 |
| 10:00 PM | F1 | Cuming County NE | 0 |
| 10:15 PM | F3 | Seward County NE | 0 |
| 10:20 PM | F1 | Cuming County NE | 0 |
| 10:35 PM | F4 | McPherson County KS | 0 |
| 10:37 PM | F1 | Cloud County KS | 0 |
| 10:40 PM | F2 | McPherson County KS | 0 |
| 11:58 PM | F1 | Johnson County NE | 0 |
| 12:09 AM | F1 | McPherson County, Marion County KS | 0 |
| 12:12 AM | F1 | Johnson County NE | 0 |
| 12:20 AM | F1 | Dickinson County KS | 0 |
| 12:30 AM | F1 | Otoe County NE | 0 |
| 12:38 AM | F0 | Dickinson County KS | 0 |
By state
| Kansas | 39 | 4 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 14 | 2 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Tornadoes in 1992 · On this date in other years · The biggest outbreak days
Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025. A day is SPC’s calendar date in Central Standard Time; an outbreak day here has 40 or more tornadoes, or 6 or more rated F3/EF3 or stronger.