© Twitter/@WxAllenThis home suffered major damage from a hailstorm in WaKeeney, Kansas, on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017.
In one part of WaKeeney, a town of about 1,800 located some 200 miles northwest of Wichita, 90 percent of the vehicles in a parking lot were damaged by the hail, and nearby homes had window and siding damage, a National Weather Service employee reported.
In Trego County, where WaKeeney is located, hailstones as large as softballs were seen in some areas, according to reports relayed to the NWS.
"The atmosphere is primed this afternoon for giant hail and damaging winds as a slow-moving cold front drifts southward into the southern Plains at the surface and a burst of energy pushes southeastward from the central Rockies across the Plains," said weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Belles.
Comment: Extreme and unusual weather continues in the United States as it did in late July.
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