A hailstorm Tuesday night in El Dorado lasted less than 15 minutes, but it did several hundred thousands of dollars in damage through much of the city’s downtown, the Butler County emergency management director said Wednesday. “When the one lone hailstorm on the prairie decided to lose all its hail, it was over the city of El Dorado,” said director Jim Schmidt. “Most reports have had golf ball- and baseball-size hail.” The storm was yet one more in a series this month that have brought the Wichita area within sight of having one of the wettest Mays ever.
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