{"id":38895,"date":"2018-06-20T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=38895"},"modified":"2018-06-20T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:02:13","slug":"storms-drop-large-hail-heavy-rains-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=38895","title":{"rendered":"Storms drop large hail, heavy rains, high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Storms Tuesday afternoon and evening left a swatch of damage across portions of western Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain began falling in the afternoon, inundating the town of Scott City with reports of up to 6 inches of rain. That left flash flooding causing issues for residents of the town.<\/p>\n<p>A bit farther north in Logan County, the town of Oakley was pounded with large hail that damaged crops, vehicles, homes and trees.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of hail up to 3 inches and nearly baseball-sized were relayed to the National Weather Service. The hail storm lasted for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In St. Francis, an 81-mile-per-hour wind gust was recorded as the storms marched through the region, toppling large Cottonwood trees.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to Ellis County, high winds were the main culprit as well. A 68-mile-per-hour gust was reported in Trego Center south of WaKeeney.<\/p>\n<p>Hays had reports of at least 60-mile-per-hour winds that damaged metal buildings, fences, trees and several power poles east of town. Several people were without power for a time before Midwest Energy was able to fix the lines.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports of more than 2 inches of rain were reported through Ellis and Trego counties, with a report of more than 3 inches south of WaKeeney, according to CoCoRaHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy photo Storms Tuesday afternoon and evening left a swatch of damage across portions of western Kansas. Heavy rain began falling in the afternoon, inundating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/elliscowind2.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38897,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895\/revisions\/38897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}