Kansas, 2001

Hail in Kansas, May 17, 2001

May 17, 2001 · NWS DDC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
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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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 17, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 1:45 PM CST, 5 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
245 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

SFC ANALYSIS HAD SECONDARY COLD FRONT JUST NORTH OF DDC AT 18Z. NO
REAL IMPRESSIVE PRESSURE RISES BEHIND FRONT AND WERE LESS THAN A
MILLIBAR. SFC TEMPS IN THE MID AND UPPER 60S OVER THE WESTERN
DAKOTAS. AT THE UPPER LEVELS...130KT JET OVER NORTHEAST SD AT 12Z
WITH FLOW SPLITTING OVER WESTERN CONUS. WV LOOP SHOWS UPPER S/W TROF
OVER UTAH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER S/W WEST. THE MAIN
CHALLENGE SHOULD BE PRECIP CHANCES NEXT 48 HOURS ALONG WITH TEMPS.

MODELS HANDLING SITUATION PRETTY WELL AND KEEP FRONT SOUTH OF CWA
THROUGH FRIDAY BUT QUICKLY RETURN THE MOISTURE BACK INTO THE WEST
BY FRIDAY MORNING. LOOKS LIKE BAROCLINIC REGION WILL BE MAINLY ALONG
SOUTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES AT LEAST THROUGH FRIDAY.  WILL PROBABLY
CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS FROM EHA TO P28 WITH SMALLER POPS FOR THE
REST.  SHOULD BE UNDER NVA THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF FRIDAY SO WILL
KEEP SMALL POPS AND MAY SEE A BIT OF SUN BY MID AFTERNOON. WINDS
WILL REMAIN UPSLOPE WITH WEAK CAA SO TEMPS SHOULD NOT GO FAR INTO
THE 70S FRIDAY. IN THE MEAN TIME FOR TONIGHT...LIKE LOWER AND MID
50S FOR MOST BASED ON DEWPOINTS WITH A60 FOR P28.

NEXT WAVE COMES IN FRIDAY NIGHT. MODELS HAVE QPF OVER MOST OF CWA
BUT SATURDAY MORNING.  WAVE LOOKS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE ON W/V LOOP AND
BAROCLINIC REGION SHOULD BE OVER AREA.  SO WILL GO WITH 50-60 POPS
FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING FOR MOST AREAS.  WITH NVA
SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WILL GO A BIT WARMER THAN FRIDAY HIGHS BUT WILL
STAY JUST BELOW FWC GUIDANCE.

EXTENDED...

MODELS STILL REMAINING CONSISTENT WITH NEXT S/W TROF CROSSING INTO
THE PLAINS ON SATURDAY NIGHT FOLLOWED BY A STRONGER SYSTEM THAT WILL
EVENTUALLY CARVE OUT A TROF OVER THE CNTL CONUS BY MONDAY AND ALSO
SUPPLY A DECENT SHOT OF COOLER AIR FOR THE START OF THE WEEK.
ALTHOUGH MODELS SCORES HAVE NOT BEEN TO IMPRESSIVE OVER THE PAST
SEVERAL DAYS, WITH W/V LOOP SHOWING NEXT S/W DIGGING SOUTHWEST OF
THE GULF COAST TROF...NOW BELIEVE MODELS MAY BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK
FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. THEREFORE GIVEN MRF ENSEMBLE OF RIDGING AND POS
ANOMALIES DEVELOPING OVER THE WEST COAST WILL LEAN TOWARDS THE
COOLER TEMPS EARLY(MON, TUES). SOMEWHAT CONCERNED ABOUT THE
PERSISTENT/DEEP UPPER LVL TROF OVER THE EASTERN CONUS BY MID WEEK.
AT THIS TIME AM CURRENTLY FAVORING THE ENSEMBLE/ECMWF SOLUTION WHICH
SHOULD BRING A MORE ZONAL FLOW.

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

.DDC...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 12:56 PM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS
156 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0435 PM    1 SE   VODA               KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   TREGO

0525 PM    3 S  SHIELDS              KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   LANE

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Local storm report, May 17, 2:45 PM CST, 4 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY, KS
345 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0655 PM    3 WNW BAZINE              KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   NESS

HC

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 190 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:46 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Morton

When
May 17, 6:45 PM CST
Where
Morton County, Elkhart
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
37.000, -101.900

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5247069.