Douglas County gets 2.53 inches of rain

Douglas County bore the brunt of Saturday night’s rain.

The National Weather Service recorded 2.53 inches at the Lawrence Municipal Airport, and weather spotters reported 2.59 inches around Clinton Lake and 2.5 inches in Eudora, meteorologist Phillip Bills said.

Other areas of Kansas received between a half inch and 2 inches, he said.

Olathe had 1.84 inches, Emporia 1.71, Topeka 1.27 and Manhattan had 0.80. The only reported problems were some water over Highway 24 near Williamstown in southern Douglas County, and some dime-sized hail about 2 a.m. west of Baldwin. Anderson County had reports of golf ball-sized hail at 3:15 a.m., Bills said.