Strong winds caused damage in several counties east of Wichita late Monday afternoon and into the evening.
Jabara Airport in northeast Wichita clocked a 67 mile-per-hour wind gust at 4:11 p.m., National Weather Service reports state. In Andover, Butler County Emergency Management reported a roof being torn off a building and cars being moved around in a parking lot just after 4:15 p.m.
A shed was damaged and blown into the road at U.S. 400 and Santa Fe Lake Road 6 miles east of Andover just before 4:30 p.m.
The El Dorado exit on the Kansas Turnpike clocked 60 mph winds just before 4:40 p.m. In the Montgomery County town of Caney, walls of an old garage were blown down and roofs were torn off a barn and another outbuilding at about 5:45 p.m., according to the weather service.
Pea- and nickel-sized hail reports were widespread throughout the Wichita metropolitan area, the National Weather Service reports. Hail one inch in diameter was reported just a mile east-southeast of Wichita shortly after 4 p.m.
Most of the hail was soft and mushy, weather officials said.