Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 30, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 30, 2001
Start: 2001-08-30T16:05
End: 2001-08-30T19:40
Location: Kansas

August 30, 2001 · NWS DDC · 6 events in 5 counties and zones

5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 1:25 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 1:25 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
225 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001

SFC FRONT APPEARED TO BE STALLED BETWEEN DDC AND GCK AT 18Z.  ALSO
SEEING SOME CU DEVELOP SOUTHEAST OF LBL. ANALYSIS SHOWS WAVE MOVING
ACROSS NORTHERN CONUS.  LIKELY WILL NOT SEE TOO MUCH PROGRESSION OF
FRONT AS LOW AND MID LEVEL WINDS PARALLEL TO FRONT.  MAIN CHALLENGE
SHOULD BE POPS TONIGHT AND NEXT TWO DAYS BASED ON FRONTAL LOCATION.

MODELS IN PRETTY FAIR AGREEMENT HANDLING THINGS NEXT FEW DAYS.
TONIGHT...MODELS SHOW PRETTY GOOD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE NEAR FRONT.
WILL LIKELY KEEP AROUND 30 POPS GOING NEAR FRONT AND 40 FOR
SOUTHEAST.  THEN FRONT SHOULD START TO MOVE BACK NORTH FRIDAY/FRIDAY
NIGHT. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SHOULD REMAIN AND WITH HEATING...WILL HAVE
TO KEEP SMALL POPS GOING FOR FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. PRETTY MUCH
THE SAME STORY FOR SATURDAY WITH SOUTH/SOUTHEAST SFC FLOW.  UPPER
WAVE WHICH EARLIER RUNS HAD FURTHER SOUTH SATURDAY...NOW SHOWING A
MORE NORTHERN TRACK.  WILL LIKELY NOT YO-YO THE FORECAST AND SIMPLY
CONTINUE WITH SMALL POPS FOR WHOLE CWA SATURDAY.

FOR TEMPS...WILL PROBABLY GO A BIT WARMER THAN NGM MOS FOR HIGHS
BASED ON MODEL 850 TEMP TRENDS.  TONIGHT LOWS COULD BE INTERESTING
WITH DRYING MID LEVELS AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF FEW CLOUDS OVERNIGHT.
MAY GO JUST UNDER GUIDANCE TEMPS FOR ALL BUT SOUTHEAST WHERE
DEWPOINTS SHOULD BE A BIT HIGHER.

EXTENDED...

FOR THE MOST PART, AM KEEPING THE PREVIOUS EXTENDED FORECAST THE SAME
FOR THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. ALSO, LIKE LATEST EC MODEL FOR THIS
PACKAGE AS WELL. UPSHOT IS THAT TEMPS WILL BE FAIRLY WARM THROUGH
MID NEXT WEEK. ALSO, WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT, GULF OPEN, AND
LEESIDE TROF OVER THE WESTERN CWA, WILL GO AHEAD AND MENTION CHANCE
FOR THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY PERIODS.

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST.

DDC 063/088 064/088 063 322
GCK 060/089 062/088 062 322
EHA 060/088 062/087 062 220
LBL 061/089 063/088 063 222
HYS 061/087 064/087 064 322
P28 066/090 067/089 067 422

.DDC...NONE.

REITER/MCCAMMON

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:07 UTC.

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Event by event

5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hodgeman

When: August 30, 4:05 PM CST
Where: Hodgeman County, Hanston
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.117, -99.717

Hail, Rush

When: August 30, 4:10 PM CST
Where: Rush County, Nekoma
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.467, -99.433

Thunderstorm Wind, Hodgeman

When: August 30, 4:20 PM CST
Where: Hodgeman County, 6 mi N of Gray
Measured: 62 kt (71 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.250, -99.650

Hail, Ness

When: August 30, 4:30 PM CST
Where: Ness County, 7 mi SSE of Bazine
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.350, -99.633

Hail, Pawnee

When: August 30, 5:05 PM CST
Where: Pawnee County, Burdett
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.200, -99.517

Hail, Kiowa

When: August 30, 7:40 PM CST
Where: Kiowa County, 1 mi E of Greensburg
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 37.600, -99.283

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Kansas, August 2001

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: 5264595, 5264596, 5264597, 5264598, 5264599, 5264600.