Hail, Riley
- When
- August 13, 8:55 PM CST
- Where
- Riley County, 7 mi NW of Manhattan
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.250, -96.683
Hail in Kansas, August 13, 2000
Thunderstorms developed over northeast Kansas late in the afternoon of the 13th. They continued well into the evening hours and produced numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds as they gradually moved to the south and east.
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
- 2
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.
Thunderstorms developed over northeast Kansas late in the afternoon of the 13th. They continued well into the evening hours and produced numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds as they gradually moved to the south and east.
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:57 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Pottawatomie
- When
- August 13, 9:02 PM CST
- Where
- Pottawatomie County, 2 mi SW of Olsburg
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.417, -96.650
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in California, August 13 to 15, 2000
- Hail in North Carolina, August 13, 2000
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 13, 2000
- Flash Flood and Dust Storm in Arizona, August 13, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, August 13, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 13, 2000
- High Surf in Hawaii, August 13 to 16, 2000
- Heavy Rain in Virginia, August 13, 2000
- Hail in North Carolina, August 13, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 13, 2000
- Flooding in New Jersey, August 13, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 13, 2000
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2000
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: 5155018, 5155019.