Hail, Phillips
- When
- June 13, 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, 2 mi E of Phillipsburg
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -99.280
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 13, 1998
A severe thunderstorm developed just east of Phillipsburg in the late afternoon and quickly became severe. After dropping golf ball sized hail in Phillips county, the storm spawned a brief tornado in northern Smith county near Thornburg.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- $175,000
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GID wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm developed just east of Phillipsburg in the late afternoon and quickly became severe. After dropping golf ball sized hail in Phillips county, the storm spawned a brief tornado in northern Smith county near Thornburg. The tornado did only minor damage before lifting as the parent thunderstorm moved into southern Nebraska.
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:56 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Smith
- When
- June 13, 3:39 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County, 15 mi N of Athol
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.980, -98.920
Tornado, Smith
- When
- June 13, 4:00 PM CST to 4:02 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County, Thornburg to 2 mi NW of Thornburg
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.970, -98.820
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 13, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 13, 1998
- Tornado in Kansas, June 13, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Massachusetts, June 13 to 23, 1998
- Heat in Florida, June 13, 1998
- Flooding in Kansas, June 13 to 22, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 13, 1998
- Flash Flooding in New Hampshire, June 13 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 13, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in District of Columbia, June 13, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Maine, June 13 to 15, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 13, 1998
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1998Warnings in Kansas, June 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5649877, 5649878, 5649879.