Hail, Douglas
- When
- March 24, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County, Lawrence
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 38.970, -95.230
Hail in Kansas, March 24, 1997
Large hail produced widespread damage to cars including more than 600 at automobile dealerships. The hail combined with strong winds to damage a total of 17 windows at two sets of apartments.
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
- $1.0 million
- 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 TOP wrote it up.
Large hail produced widespread damage to cars including more than 600 at automobile dealerships. The hail combined with strong winds to damage a total of 17 windows at two sets of apartments. Most of the damage occurred on the north side of town where the hail reached the size of golf balls.
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:35 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 24 to 25, 1997
- Flooding in Iowa, March 24 to 31, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, March 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 24, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, March 24 to 25, 1997
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, March 24 to 25, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, March 24, 1997
- High Surf in Hawaii, March 24 to 25, 1997
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 24 to 25, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, March 24, 1997
- High Wind in South Dakota, March 24, 1997
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, March 1997
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: 5589458.