Kansas storm reports for March 18, 2012

Name: NOAA storm reports, Kansas, March 18, 2012
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 11 hail reports and 1 tornado report in Kansas on March 18, 2012.

in Kansas; 12
Storm reports: Near 37.28, -100.48, KS; 1.25 in
Largest hail: Highest rating EF0, near 39.77, -98.04, KS; 1
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on March 18, 2012 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Hail11, most at 8 PM

Tornado1, most at 6 AM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
6:55 AM	EF0	Near 39.77, -98.04, KS	0.81 mi long, 40 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
6:26 PM	0.75 in	Near 38.06, -100.75, KS
7:05 PM	0.88 in	Near 38.48, -100.60, KS
7:24 PM	0.75 in	Near 38.61, -100.54, KS
8:20 PM	0.88 in	Near 37.15, -100.62, KS
8:25 PM	0.88 in	Near 37.18, -100.56, KS
8:43 PM	1.0 in	Near 37.50, -100.49, KS
8:50 PM	0.88 in	Near 37.52, -100.49, KS
8:55 PM	1.0 in	Near 37.07, -100.58, KS
9:10 PM	1.25 in	Near 37.28, -100.48, KS
9:33 PM	0.88 in	Near 37.53, -100.35, KS
3:36 AM	0.75 in	Near 37.34, -99.46, KS

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.