Hail, Stevens
- When
- April 26, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Stevens County, Moscow
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- PARK/FOREST SERVICE
- Coordinates
- 37.330, -101.200
Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 26, 1999
4 hail, 3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- $4,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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.
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:45 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Stafford
- When
- April 26, 6:02 PM CST
- Where
- Stafford County, 1 mi NW of Zenith
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.970, -98.500
Tornado, Pratt
- When
- April 26, 6:50 PM CST to 6:51 PM CST
- Where
- Pratt County, 2 mi N of Preston
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.780, -98.550
Tornado formed out of a low topped supercell.
Tornado, Pratt
- When
- April 26, 7:24 PM CST to 7:42 PM CST
- Where
- Pratt County, Cairo to 4 mi SSE of Cairo
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.600, -98.530
Tornado that formed from a low toppped supercell damaged a gas well and destroyed the head house.
Hail, Pratt
- When
- April 26, 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Pratt County, 12 mi E of Sawyer
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -98.470
Tornado, Barber
- When
- April 26, 7:46 PM CST to 7:58 PM CST
- Where
- Barber County, Medicine Lodge Arpt to 10 mi NE of Sharon
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 4.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.370, -98.420
Hail, Barber
- When
- April 26, 8:08 PM CST
- Where
- Barber County, 5 mi E of Sharon
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -98.350
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 26, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, April 26, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, April 26, 1999
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 26, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 26, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 26, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 26, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 26, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, April 26, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, April 26, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Texas, April 26, 1999
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 26, 1999
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1999Warnings in Kansas, April 1999
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: 5690893, 5690894, 5690897, 5690896, 5690895, 5690898, 5690899.