Hail, Rice
- When
- May 9, 6:50 PM CST to 6:55 PM CST
- Where
- Rice County, 5 mi E of Lyons
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.350, -98.100
Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING RICE COUNTY ON THIS EVENING DROPPED HAIL AS LARGE AS BASEBALLS FROM HIGHWAY 14 ON EAST, DAMAGING CROPS, BUILDINGS, VEHICLES AND FARM EQUIPMENT.
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
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 ICT wrote it up.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING RICE COUNTY ON THIS EVENING DROPPED HAIL AS LARGE AS BASEBALLS FROM HIGHWAY 14 ON EAST, DAMAGING CROPS, BUILDINGS, VEHICLES AND FARM EQUIPMENT.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornado in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, May 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, May 9 to 10, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Tornado in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Iowa, May 9, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 9, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 9 to 13, 1996
- Flooding in Tennessee, May 9 to 23, 1996
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, May 1996
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: 5548341.