Hail — Washington, Kansas

2024-08-14 · near Linn, Washington, Kansas

Wider weather episode

Severe thunderstorms produced numerous reports of damaging winds during the evening of August 14th. Many of the damage reports were likely due to what are called wet downbursts of locally damaging winds of 65 to 80 mph. A supercell thunderstorm also developed near a warm frontal boundary and did produce a brief tornado based on photos however no damage was reported.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1200201. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.