Hail — Butler, Kansas

2011-04-08 · near Rose Hill, Butler, Kansas

Event narrative

Baseball to softball size hail pounded the city of Rose Hill. This hail damaged roofs, siding, cars and homes. The Rose Hill high school roof was a total loss at $700,000. Damage to city vehicles and buildings were estimated at $313,000. Nine out of 10 of the city police cars have been damaged and one car was totalled. Nearly every home in town had 50 to 100 percent roof damage.

Wider weather episode

Severe storms created a large swath of golf ball to baseball size hail across portions of South Central Kansas on Friday, April 8th 2011. Storms first developed over northwest and north-central Oklahoma along a dryline during the early evening hours of April 8th. With abundant instability, the storms rapidly became severe as they tracked slowly east-northeast. Many of the large hail producing storms that affected South Central Kansas were storms that split from the large eastward moving supercells over northern Oklahoma.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 303685. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.