Hail, Pottawatomie
- When
- May 16, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County, 6 mi W of Westmoreland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -96.530
Hail in Kansas, May 16, 1997
Large hail covered the ground.
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
- 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 TOP wrote it up.
Large hail covered the ground.
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
- Strong Wind in New York, May 16, 1997
- Cold in Michigan, May 16, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 16, 1997
- Strong Wind in Pennsylvania, May 16, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 16, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 16, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 16, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, May 16, 1997
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: 5593574.