Hail, Russell
- When
- June 13, 9:39 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, Gorham
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.883, -99.017
Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 13, 2001
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- 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 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 2:49 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:49 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 349 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 MAIN FCST CHALLENGE IS TIMING OF PRECIP TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW. MODELS ARE SIMILAR WITH TIMING OF THE UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...TAKING THE TROUGH ACROSS THE FCST AREA BY 06Z FRI. IN THE LOWER LEVELS... MODELS DIFFER SLIGHTLY. THE AVN/ETA DEVELOPS A LOW OVER SW CO BY THIS EVENING. NGM HAS IT/S TYPICAL NORTHERN BIAS SO AM TRENDING TOWARD THE ETA/AVN. THIS LOW IS PROGGED TO SLIDE N/NE ALONG THE BOUNDARY CURRENTLY OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE. THE DEVELOPING LOW OVER SW KS WILL HELP LOW LEVEL WINDS TO BACK DURING THE EVENING...00-03Z. COULD BE A COUPLE AREAS WHERE CONVECTION WILL START. ONE WILL BE NORTH OF THE FCST AREA WHERE CONVERGENCE WILL BE MAXIMIZED ALONG SFC/850MB BOUNDARY. ANOTHER COULD BE WEST OF THE FCST AREA WHERE WINDS WILL BACK THIS EVENING...THEREBY INCREASING THE CONVERGENCE IN THIS AREA. EXPECT THERE COULD BE SOME TSRA OVER NCEN PORTIONS OF THE FCST AREA THIS EVENING...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE DUE TO A GOOD VEERING WIND PROFILE AND HIGH CAPES. PROBLEM WITH THIS IS THERE IS STILL A GOOD CAP OVER MUCH OF THE STATE. WOULD EXPECT SOME TSRA TO BACK BUILD DOWN THETA-E AXIS ACROSS EASTERN KS OVERNIGHT...AND A LINE OF CONVECTION TO MOVE INTO CEN/SCEN SECTIONS TONIGHT FROM THE WEST. SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE COMING OUT SLOWER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. SO WILL REINTRODUCE MORNING PRECIP FOR MAINLY SCEN SECTION AND WILL TAKE OUT MORNING WORDING FOR SE KS. WILL ALSO PUT IN SLIGHT CHC MORNING PRECIP FOR SLN AREA. OTHERWISE WILL KEEP REMAINDER OF FCST DRY FOR NOW. SINCE THE SYSTEM IS COMING OUT SLOWER...WILL BUMP UP LOWS OVERNIGHT FOR MAINLY SCEN/SE SECTIONS. AFTER A BRIEF NW WIND AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE...EXPECT WINDS TO BECOME WESTERLY FOR FRIDAY. THIS WILL PUT A DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT TO THE WIND...HELPING TEMPS FRIDAY TO WARM. WILL THEREFORE BUMP UP TEMPS SLIGHTLY FRIDAY. REMAINDER OF TEMP FCST LOOKS GOOD. THANKS FOR COORD...TOP. FCSTID = 7/NRR ICT 69 85 62 87 / 30 20 10 0 HUT 67 84 60 86 / 40 20 10 0 EWK 68 85 61 87 / 40 20 10 0 EQA 70 85 62 88 / 40 20 10 0 WLD 70 85 62 87 / 30 20 10 0 RSL 64 81 57 86 / 40 10 0 0 GBD 64 81 57 86 / 50 10 5 0 SLN 67 85 60 86 / 50 20 10 0 MPR 67 85 60 85 / 50 20 10 0 CFV 72 86 64 84 /q 30 30 10 0 CNU 72 86 64 84 / 30 30 10 0 K88 72 85 64 84 / 30 30 10 0 .ICT...NONE.
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:41 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Russell
- When
- June 13, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, Waldo
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.117, -98.800
Hail, Russell
- When
- June 13, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Russell County, Waldo
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.117, -98.800
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 13 to 14, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 13, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 13, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 13, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 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: 5246457, 5246458, 5246459.