A severe thunderstorm pounded portions of Mitchell and other counties in North central Kansas early Thursday morning.

According to information from the National Weather Service in Hastings, golf ball size hail broke windows on the south side of homes 3 to 8 miles south of Beloit about 6:35 a.m. Thursday morning.

Officials also report crops destroyed due to a combination of hail and wind southeast of Beloit.

The Mitchell County Sheriff’s Office estimated winds of 90-mph caused significant damage to a home, and destroyed a farm Quonset about a mile south of Asherville around 6:40 a.m.

As the storm moved east and northeast, it dropped ping pong ball size hail south of Concordia, and hail covered the ground in portions of Washington and Marshall counties, and wide spread tree damage was also reported in Frankfort due to high winds.