Hail, Sherman
- When
- June 29, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Sherman County, 9 mi SE of Goodland
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.270, -101.600
Hail in Kansas, June 29, 1998
10 hail, 2 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 12
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.
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
Event by event
10 hail, 2 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Wallace
- When
- June 29, 3:20 PM MST
- Where
- Wallace County, 10 mi NNE of Wallace
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.050, -101.520
Hail, Logan
- When
- June 29, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 4 mi NW of Mc Allaster
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.030, -101.450
Hail, Logan
- When
- June 29, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 1 mi SW of Mc Allaster
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.980, -101.420
Hail, Logan
- When
- June 29, 4:46 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 4 mi W of Russell Spgs
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.920, -101.230
Also, dime size hail reported 4W McAllaster at 1650 CST.
Hail, Logan
- When
- June 29, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 14 mi S of Monument
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.900, -101.020
Also, tree limbs down.
Hail, Logan
- When
- June 29, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, 14 mi S of Russell Spgs
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.720, -101.170
Funnel Cloud, Thomas
- When
- June 29, 5:32 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County, 16 mi E of Colby
- Coordinates
- 39.351, -101.055 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Thomas
- When
- June 29, 6:02 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County, 4 mi W of Colby
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -101.120
Hail, Thomas
- When
- June 29, 6:07 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County, 1 mi E of Colby
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.400, -101.030
Funnel Cloud, Thomas
- When
- June 29, 6:28 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County, 2 mi NE of Colby
- Coordinates
- 39.351, -101.055 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Thomas
- When
- June 29, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County, 12 mi S of Levant
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.220, -101.200
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Iowa, June 29, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 29, 1998
- Heat and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 29, 1998
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 29, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Michigan, June 29, 1998
- Heat in Oklahoma, June 29, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 29, 1998
- Heat in Alabama, June 29, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 29, 1998
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 29, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 29 to 30, 1998
More
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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: 5640969, 5640970, 5640971, 5640972, 5641051, 5641054, 5641052, 5641053, 5641055, 5641056, 5641058, 5641057.