Hail, Wichita
- When
- July 5, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County, 13 mi ENE of Leoti
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.550, -101.130
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, July 5, 1999
8 hail, 1 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:22 UTC.
Event by event
8 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Wichita
- When
- July 5, 5:19 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County, Leoti
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -101.350
Hail, Graham
- When
- July 5, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Graham County, Morland
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.350, -100.080
Tornado, Gove
- When
- July 5, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Gove County, Grainfield
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.120, -100.470
Brief tornado spotted just outside of Grainfield.
Hail, Logan
- When
- July 5, 5:44 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 11 mi S of Russell Spgs
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.750, -101.170
Hail, Greeley
- When
- July 5, 4:45 PM MST
- Where
- Greeley County, 5 mi SE of Whitelaw
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.400, -101.600
Hail, Gove
- When
- July 5, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Gove County, 1 mi E of Grainfield
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.120, -100.450
Hail, Gove
- When
- July 5, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gove County, 5 mi SE of Grinnell
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -100.570
Hail, Graham
- When
- July 5, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Graham County, 1 mi W of St Peter
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.180, -100.100
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 and Flash Flooding in Arizona, July 5 to 29, 1999
- Heat and Hail in North Carolina, July 5 to 25, 1999
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 5, 1999
- Heat in Massachusetts, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 5, 1999
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Maine, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Arizona, July 5, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, July 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, July 5, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 5, 1999
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1999Warnings in Kansas, July 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: 5709684, 5709685, 5709686, 5709687, 5709688, 5709689, 5709690, 5709692, 5709691.