Hail, Johnson
- When
- May 17, 2:32 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County, 3 mi SW of Stanley
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 38.817, -94.683
Hail in Kansas, May 17, 2001
1 hail, 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
- 1
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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 17, 2:55 AM CST, 11 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:55 AM CST, 11 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 355 AM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 LOCATION OF FNTS/OUTFLOW BNDRYS...PCPN...CLDS WILL HV AN IMPACT ON TEMPS THRU FRI MRNG. MID/UPR LVL PATTERN HAS BCM MORE ACTV AS MID/UPR LVL RDG HAS FLATTENED...WITH PREDOMINANT ZONAL FLOW NOW IN PLACE. QSTNRY FNTL BNDRY LIES FM NRN IL ACRS EXTRM SRN IA INTO N CNTRL KS. UPSTRM CDFNT FM WRN MN CURVES SW THRU NRN NEB. STG/ISOLD SVR TSTMS OCRG WITH SRN MOST BNDRY NR MO/IA BDR WHERE CAPES RUNNING ARND 3000J. SUF INSTBY PRESENT TO SUPPORT SOME LRG HAIL FOR THE REST OF THIS MRNG. CNVTV COMPLEX SHUD TRK E THIS MRNG WITH MAIN PCPN THREAT FAR NRN MO CNTYS THIS MRNG. WATCHING LRG CNVTV COMPLEX OVR ERN CO/WRN KS. ETA/AVN MODELS HV BEST HANDLE WITH THIS FEATURE...AND TRK THIS PCPN COMPLEX EWD THIS MRNG ACRS KS. DFCLT TO SEE VORT LOBE MODELS ATTACH TO THIS FEATURE BUT FEEL IT IS MORE OF A CNVTVLY INDUCED VORT MAX WHICH WILL BCM MORE APPARANT LTR THIS MRNG. FNTL BNDRY EXPCD TO SAG SWD THIS MRNG AND BCM THE FOCUS FOR ACTV CNVTN PSBLY BY ERY AFTN. H7 TEMPS PROGD TO COOL A CPL DEGREES TDY SO AMS WILL BE LESS CAPPED. HI CAPE VALUES WILL CONT TO SUPPORT LRG HAIL/DMGG WIND THREAT THRU ERY THIS EVE ACRS SE HLF CWA. GIVEN HIGH POPS FM PROGS AND ABV SCENERIO FEEL LIKELY POPS WARRANTED FOR LRG PART OF CWA. SINCE PCPN SHUD HOLD OFF FOR ALL BUT FAR NRN CNTYS TILL THIS AFTN THINK MOST OF CWA WILL EXCEED GUID MAX TEMPS. UPSTRM CDFNT PROGD TO ENTER NW MO THIS AFTN AND COULD BE ANOTHER SOURCE FOR AFTN CNVTN. HIGH PWS SUS HVY RAIN WILL CONT TO BE A THREAT. MAY SEE SOME POST FNTL CNVTN AS SLOW MOVG MID LVL SHRTWV MOVS E INTO CWA LT THIS AFTN/EVE. EXTV CLDNS EXPCD TO LAST THRU TNGT AND THIS LIKELY TO SUPPORT WRMR MIN TEMPS THAN PROGD. COOLER AND DRIER AIR MOVS INTO CWA FRI AS SFC HI BUILDS IN. NEXT CHC OF RAIN IS SAT NGT/SUN AS STGR SHRTWV MOVS ACRS SRN PLAINS WITH INVERTED SFC FNT PUSING E ACRS KS AND INTO MO. LTST AVN/MRF SHOW A STGR CDFNT WITH MUCH COOLER AIR MOVG IN FOR TUE/WED. HV LOWERED TEMPS SVRL CAT TO REFLECT THIS. .EAX... KS...NONE MO...NONE JULY
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 17, 1:57 PM CST, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
257 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0245 PM 3 NW DE WITT MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 CARROLL AND 2 FOOT
CIRCUMFERENCE TREE LIMB
BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.Local storm report, May 17, 1:59 PM CST, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
259 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0220 PM MOSBY MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 CLAY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, May 17, 2:03 PM CST, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
303 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0117 PM 5 S TRENTON MO 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 GRUNDY ALSO HIGH WINDS BENDING
SIGNS OVER. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0120 PM 6 W TRENTON MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 GRUNDY REPORTED BY MEDIA.
0122 PM 4 SE TRENTON MO 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 GRUNDY REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0133 PM 7 S TRENTON MO 65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/17/01 GRUNDY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORyCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 17, 2:09 PM CST, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
309 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY@ LOCATION....
0256 PM ORRICK MO 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 RAY REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, May 17, 2:14 PM CST, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
314 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0310 PM NORTH KANSAS CITY MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 CLAY REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
ARMOUR RD AND I-35.Local storm report, May 17, 2:20 PM CST, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
320 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0313 PM KANSAS CITY MO .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE.
0315 PM KANSAS CITY MO .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR. AT THE PLAZA.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, May 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, May 17 to 20, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 17 to 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in West Virginia, May 17, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, May 17, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, May 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: 5245625.