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To: Duker who wrote (36)	6/28/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: Duker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 72

Rains, hail hit U.S. Midwest [Not necessarily relevant news, bad, or good news ... but news just the same ... --Duker] KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 28 (Reuters) - Heavy rain from summer thunderstorms swamped parts of the U.S. Midwest on Monday, triggering flash flood warnings and closing roads just hours after hail and gusting wind battered some areas. Police in Kansas City said about two dozen roads were closed after night-long storms. Workers in Nebraska were cleaning up after hail storms that injured several people and damaged dozens of homes and cars. The storms, which hit on Sunday and again on Monday, produced as much as 6 inches (15 cm) of rain, along with lightning and winds gusting up to 83 miles (133 km) per hour. Kansas, central Nebraska and parts of Missouri, Minnesota and Iowa were affected. Floyd Mitchell, spokesman for the police department in Kansas City, Missouri, said storm debris blocked drains and caused major flooding in city streets. About two dozen roads remain closed on Monday, he said. Sherry Blaha, a civil defense director in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, said a storm struck the area on Sunday night, producing hail the size of oranges. ''It was pretty scary,'' she said. ''The rain caused so much flooding, (and) the hail sounded like gunshots being fired at your house,'' she added. Hail dented roofs, widows and windshields. Two roofs were blown off houses and power failures occurred in several areas. In the town of Minatare, Nebraska, the American Red Cross set up a shelter for those whose homes were badly damaged by the storm.