Name: Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2001
Start: 2001-05-06T13:50
End: 2001-05-06T16:59
Location: Kansas

Where it happened

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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 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 6, 1:15 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 1:15 PM CST, 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
215 PM CDT SUN MAY 06 2001

BKN LN OF STORMS ENTERING WRN CWA AT 1835 UTC. LEADING EDGE OF DRY
LINE PUSHING INTO UNSTABLE/UNCAPPED AMS. 1800 UTC MAPS DATA SHWS
-4/-7 LI'S ACR CWA AND MID LVL DRY/CAA STG ENOUGH THAT ISOLD LARGE
HAIL FORMATION XPTD WITH TSTMS. STUBORN RDG IN THE EAST PORTENDS FOR
SLOW MVMNT OF DRY LN/CD FNT ACR CWA REST OF THIS PM AND EVNG. WILL
CARRY STG/SVR STORMS FOR MOST OF CWA THRU ERLY EVNG. PLAN ON
REMOVING CHC POP LATE TNGT IN E BUT THINKING OF KEEPING POP IN E
UNTIL LATER ON.

MODELS STILL INDICATE DRIER AIR TO SWEEP IN FOR MON. WITH LESS
COOLING IN BNDRY LYR BHD TNGT'S FNT CONCERNED THAT LAPSE RATES MAY
BE HIGHER ENOUGH FOR ISOLD CNVTV SHWRS BUT AS AM FCSTR POINTED
OUT...AMS PROB TOO DRY FOR CNVTV DVLPMNT.

NXT CHC FOR STORMS WED NITE INTO FRI WITH STG DIFFERENTIAL ADVT FCST
WED NITE AND SLOW MVG FNT0 THUR INTO FRI AM. BASED ON MED RANGE MODEL
FCST 850 HPA PROFILE THINK TEMPS WILL BE AT OR ABV NRML THRU XTND
PRD.

BUSY PM MUST CUT SHORT.

.EAX...
KS...NONE
MO...NONE

BODNER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-071100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
100 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING...

FORECAST: THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
MISSOURI...BACK INTO EASTERN KANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...ARE
EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN AS THEY SWING EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY
EVENING. THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE TO A KIRKSVILLE TO BOONVILLE LINE
BETWEEN 9 PM AND MIDNIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL.
DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

DISCUSSION: AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA
WILL LIFT NORTHEAST TODAY WHILE A COLD FRONT IN CENTRAL KANSAS MOVES
INTO WESTERN MISSOURI THIS EVENING. THE COLD FRONT WILL LEAD TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS IT ENCOUNTERS A
WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS.

OUTLOOK:  IT WILL BE DRY MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH THE NEXT
THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.iGOV/EAX

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The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:51 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Leavenworth

When: May 6, 1:50 PM CST to 1:59 PM CST
Where: Leavenworth County, 2 mi NW of Jarbalo
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 39.217, -95.100

Hail, Johnson

When: May 6, 4:59 PM CST
Where: Johnson County, Stanley
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 38.850, -94.650

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

More

Every storm in Kansas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5244799, 5244798.