A storm that pounded Manhattan with baseball-sized hail Monday morning shifted to the south and spared Lawrence from widespread damage.

“It had the same intensity, but it didn’t hit Lawrence with that intensity,” said 6News chief meteorologist Jennifer Schack.

But it dropped the most rain – 2.15 inches – in one day in Lawrence since August 2006, prompting an afternoon flash flood warning. No significant damage was reported in Douglas County, but some intersections were blocked in the city to prevent vehicles from driving through high water.

At one point Monday afternoon about 1,300 Westar Energy customers in Lawrence were without electricity, but virtually all power had been restored by Monday evening.

Emergency personnel in Douglas County said high water was reported in the late morning near 23rd Street and Ousdahl Road, Fourth and Maine streets and along Iowa Street between Harvard Road and 15th Street.

“We were very fortunate here in Douglas County that we didn’t have the four-and-a-quarter-inch hail they had (to the west),” said Douglas County Emergency Management Director Teri Smith.

The town of Clinton received 1.75 inches of rain in about 45 minutes, Smith said. Pea-sized hail and 50-mph winds were also reported in southern part of the county and also west of Lecompton.

Schack said a trained weather spotter reported 70-mph gusts about 6 miles west of Baldwin City. The wind also bent a street light pole near Sixth and Colorado streets, and Westar crews repaired it Monday.

The Kansas Turnpike Authority reported two instances of motorists needing help during the storm. One vehicle rolled onto its side about nine miles east of Lawrence. Another vehicle slid into a ditch about three miles east of Lawrence, and emergency workers pulled it out. No injuries were reported in either case.

Lighting struck a tree in front of a Basehor home, and a woman who lived there was taken to the hospital after complaining of numbness in her hands, Basehor Police Chief Lloyd Martley said.

Many of the areas in north-central and northeast Kansas hit hardest by hail were rural.

Manhattan was the largest community affected by the storm. Baseball-sized hail damaged cars and buildings downtown and at Manhattan Regional Airport.

No aircraft were damaged but the terminal building and a hangar were. The bulk of the damage was to cars parked at the airport. No injuries were reported.

A severe thunderstorm watch was posted in 30 northern and northeastern Kansas counties.

Such weather has been common so far this year. Last week the weather service reported that nearly 90 tornadoes were reported in Kansas over a period of several days.