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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Tue Sep 3 2024

...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...

In 1970, severe thunderstorms hammered Southeast Kansas
with hail that reached epic diameters of 4 to nearly 6
inches.  Coffeyville Kansas was bombarded by a hideous
hailstone that measured 17.5 inches in circumference, 5.7
inches in diameter and weighed 1.67 pounds.  It had been
the largest hailstone on record in the United States
until June 22, 2003, when Aurora Nebraska was hammered by
a specimen measuring 18.75 inches in circumference and 7
inches in diameter.  However, the Aurora event did not
`hail` as king of hailstones very long.  On July 23,
2010, an even more humongous hailstone 8 inches in
diameter and weighing 1.94 pounds landed in Vivian South
Dakota.

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