Hail, Russell
- When
- June 29, 7:47 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 5 mi W of Paradise
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.117, -99.017
Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 29 to 30, 2000
19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 5
- Property damage
- $21 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 33
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 Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:02 UTC.
Event by event
19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Russell
- When
- June 29, 7:48 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, Paradise
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 39.117, -98.917
Hail, Russell
- When
- June 29, 7:57 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 1 mi SE of Fairport
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.033, -99.017
Thunderstorm Wind, Russell
- When
- June 29, 7:57 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 1 mi SE of Fairport
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.033, -99.017
Hail, Russell
- When
- June 29, 8:02 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 6 mi SE of Fairport
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.983, -98.950
Hail covered ground to a depth of one inch.
Thunderstorm Wind, Russell
- When
- June 29, 8:07 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 10 mi N of Russell
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.033, -98.850
Hail, Russell
- When
- June 29, 8:09 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 8 mi S of Gorham
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.767, -99.017
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:18 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 1 mi W of Galatia
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.633, -98.983
Windows broken at a couple of homes as well as a few vehicles.
Hail, Russell
- When
- June 29, 8:22 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, 10 mi SE of Gorham
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.783, -98.883
Thunderstorm Wind, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:24 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 1 mi S of Galatia
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.617, -98.967
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:27 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, Galatia
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.633, -98.967
Damage included broken windows (to both buildings and vehicles), siding and roofs. The damage estimate also includes that caused by the two-inch diameter hail reported at 2031 CST.
Thunderstorm Wind, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:27 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, Galatia
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.633, -98.967
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:31 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, Galatia
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 38.633, -98.967
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:37 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 3 mi W of Olmitz
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.517, -98.983
Damage included broken windows (to both buildings and vehicles), siding, and roofs.
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:46 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 11 mi NW of Great Bend
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.483, -98.917
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 4 mi SE of Hoisington
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.483, -98.717
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 3 mi N of Great Bend
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 38.417, -98.767
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, Great Bend
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $20 million
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.367, -98.767
The baseball-sized hail caused widespread damage to approximately 8,000 residences, 400 businesses and 2,500 vehicles. Damage included smashed windows, roofs, siding and air conditioners. Among the vehicles damaged were those of the Barton County Sheriff's Department in which nearly all of the windows were smashed. Crop damage was major to alfalfa, sorghum, corn and soybeans with 18 to 20 percent of these crops destroyed. All reported injuries were minor. Area newspapers contributed to this report.
Hail, Barton
- When
- June 29, 9:13 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County, 7 mi S of Great Bend
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.267, -98.767
High Wind, Russell
- When
- June 29, 9:13 PM CST
- Where
- Russell forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 38.915, -98.762 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High winds associated with wake low whipped across central Kansas downing tree limbs and power lines.
Thunderstorm Wind, Reno
- When
- June 29, 9:42 PM CST
- Where
- Reno County, 10 mi W of Nickerson
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.150, -98.267
Thunderstorm Wind, Rice
- When
- June 29, 9:51 PM CST
- Where
- Rice County, 4 mi E of Chase
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.350, -98.283
Thunderstorm Wind, Rice
- When
- June 29, 9:53 PM CST
- Where
- Rice County, 6 mi NW of Chase
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.417, -98.433
Thunderstorm Wind, Reno
- When
- June 29, 9:56 PM CST
- Where
- Reno County, Sylvia
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.967, -98.417
Thunderstorm Wind, Reno
- When
- June 29, 9:59 PM CST
- Where
- Reno County, Sylvia
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 37.967, -98.417
Thunderstorm Wind, Reno
- When
- June 29, 10:26 PM CST
- Where
- Reno County, 3 mi N of Hutchinson
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.117, -97.917
Large tree limbs downed.
High Wind, Ellsworth
- When
- June 29, 10:46 PM CST
- Where
- Ellsworth forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 38.697, -98.205 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Saline
- When
- June 29, 11:15 PM CST to 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Saline forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.784, -97.650 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- June 29, 11:35 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, 2 mi SE of Furley
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.867, -97.183
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- June 29, 11:40 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, 6 mi E of Wichita
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -97.217
Hail, Sedgwick
- When
- June 29, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, 6 mi E of Wichita
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -97.217
Hail, Butler
- When
- June 29, 11:50 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County, 2 mi S of Andover
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.683, -97.133
High Wind, Chase
- When
- June 30, 12:37 AM CST to 1:25 AM CST
- Where
- Chase forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.302, -96.594 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5149133, 5149134, 5149135, 5149136, 5149198, 5149199, 5149200, 5149484, 5149485, 5149486, 5149487, 5149488, 5149489, 5149490, 5149491, 5149492, 5149493, 5149494, 5149495, 5149568, 5149496, 5149497, 5149498, 5149499, 5149500, 5149501, 5149569, 5149570, 5149502, 5149565, 5149566, 5149567, 5149571.