Two rounds of severe storms moved through central Kansas Sunday into early Monday morning.
The first round of storms around midday brought two-inch diameter hail in the Canton area with quarter size or larger hail reported from between McPherson and Lindsborg east into Marion County. 70 mile hour wind gusts were reported in Canton and in Lehigh, where a tree was reported to have fallen on a house. Considerable damage was also reported in Hillsboro.
The second round of storms developed late Sunday night and continued into early morning. This storm produced more large hail, quarter size in the Lindsborg area and two-inch diameter hail in Salina.
Other areas of Kansas were impacted by these two systems and a third that developed in southeast Kansas. The latter system produced tornadoes that caused extensive damage in Sycamore, north of Independence in Montgomery, and another large tornado in Cherokee County that prompted meteorologists at a TV station south of Pittsburg to seek shelter for a time.
The storms brought very heavy rainfall in the Parsons area where at least one vehicle was swept off a road, and in northeast Kansas where flooding was reported in several locations, along with wind damage in the Lawrence area.
Rainfall amounts varied widely around the area. McPherson’s official rainfall was .66 of an inch, while a K-State Mesonet station on K-61 at the west K-153 junction recorded only .25 of an inch, and much less to the south. Lindsborg recorded 1.73 inches of rain, with between 1-2 inches observed in the Salina area, 1.11 inches at Kanopolis Lake, .80 of an inch near Little River and 2.33 inches at Gypsum.
