Hail, Phillips
- When
- June 3, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, Woodruff
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -99.420
Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 3, 1999
A rural fire department spotter observed a brief tornado just east of Woodruff. No damage occurred.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 2
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 rural fire department spotter observed a brief tornado just east of Woodruff. No damage occurred.
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:12 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Phillips
- When
- June 3, 7:18 PM CST to 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, 4 mi E of Woodruff
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -99.330
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
- Heat in Illinois, June 3 to 11, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 3, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 1999
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 3, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 3 to 4, 1999
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 3, 1999
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 3, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 3, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 3, 1999
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 3, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 3, 1999
More
Every storm in Kansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kansas, 1999Warnings in Kansas, June 1999
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: 5705590, 5705591.