Hail, Logan
- When
- July 23, 3:25 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 1 mi NE of Monument
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Crop damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 39.120, -101.000
Hail in Kansas, July 23, 1996
GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL HAIL AND STRONG NORTH WINDS BROKE OUT NEARLY EVERY NORTH FACING WINDOW IN MONUMENT. CARS WERE DAMAGED AND CROPS DESTROYED.
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
- $150,000
- Crop damage
- $1.0 million
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL HAIL AND STRONG NORTH WINDS BROKE OUT NEARLY EVERY NORTH FACING WINDOW IN MONUMENT. CARS WERE DAMAGED AND CROPS DESTROYED. ABOUT 260 PANES OF GLASS AT THE MONUMENT SCHOOL WERE BROKEN.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:25 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
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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: 5558740.