Hail, Atchison
- When
- May 22, 10:30 PM CST to 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Atchison County, Tarkio to Langdon
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.430, -95.380
Hail in Missouri, May 22, 1996
Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail over sections of Atchison County. Highway Patrol reported baseball size hail(two and three quarter inch) 6 miles southeast of Langdon at mile marker 104 on Interstate 29.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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 EAX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail over sections of Atchison County. Highway Patrol reported baseball size hail(two and three quarter inch) 6 miles southeast of Langdon at mile marker 104 on Interstate 29. The county sheriff's office reported golfball-size hail in Tarkio and a weather spotter in Fairfax reported dime-size hail.
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:30 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: 5546007.