Hail, Rush
- When
- May 8, 3:41 PM CST
- Where
- Rush County, 5 mi W of Liebenthal
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.650, -99.417
Hail in Kansas, May 8, 2001
16 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
- 16
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 8, 2:23 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:23 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 323 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001 FORECAST CHALLENGE THIS EVENING IS CHANCES FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS, THEN IF LOW CLOUDS/STRATUS DEVELOP LATE. SURFACE MAP SHOWS LOTS OF MOISTURE IN A NARROW RIBBON ON WEST SIDE OF HIGH MOVING IN FROM WEST TEXAS WITH PLUME INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. SATELLITE PICS SHOW AREA OF CU WITH SOME TOWERING CU DEVELOPING ALONG A TROF LINE. WILL NEED A SMALL POP THIS EVENING TO COVER ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. SHOULD SEE THUNDERSTORM THREAT DIMINISH RAPIDLY BY SUNSET. THEN LATER TONIGHT GULF MOISTURE CONTINUES TO PUMP WITH SOUTH WINDS STAYING AT 10 TO 20 MPH. SOME STRATUS DEVELOPED OVER THE TEXAS PAN LAST NIGHT SO SHOULD HAVE SOME STRATUS DEVELOPING LATE OVER SWRN KS. WILL GO WITH INCREASING CLOUDS LATE. FOR WEDNESDAY, THE H85 GRADIENT LOOKS TIGHT ENOUGH FOR WINDY CONDITIONS FROM 20 TO 30 MPH SUSTAINED. H85 FCST TEMPS FROM 21 TO 25C YIELD SURFACE TEMPS FROM MID 80S TO LOW 90S. WILL GO WITH LOW 90S WEST TO AROUND/NEAR 90 ELSEWHERE. MAIN VORT AND FRONTS STAY NORTH AND WEST OF AREA SO MOSTLY SUNNY TO PARTLY CLOUDY LOOK GOOD. WEDNESDAY NIGHT A SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA WITH THREAT FOR THUNDER ALL AREAS. WILL GO WITH A 30 TO 40 POP. THURSDAY IS A FAIRLY HARD FORECAST FOR TEMPS WITH FRONT FORECAST TO BE NEAR OR OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS. COULD BE 90 PLUS IN WARM SECTOR WITH ONLY 70S NORTH OF FRONT. WILL HEDGE TOWARD GUIDANCE OF 80 TO 85 IN WARM SECTOR AND MID 70S IN NORTH CWA. FRONT COULD BE KICKED FURTHER SOUTH WITH OVERNIGHT CONVECTION. IF THIS PANS OUT 70S WILL BE COMMON PLACE ACROSS ENTIRE AREA. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... WITH COLD FRONT OVER AREA THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, THE MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO BE WARRANTED. ALSO, WITH COLD FRONT MOVING TO OUR SOUTH BY WEEK'S END, WILL KEEP COOLER TEMPS GOING FOR SATURDAY. DRYLINE/SFC TROF WILL MEANDER OVER THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS EARLY NEXT WEEK, SO CAN'T RULE OUT STORMS EACH AFTERNOON. THEREFORE THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST IN THE EARLY NEXT WEEK FORECAST. TEMPS LOOK TO BE ABOVE SEASONAL NORMS FOR THE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY PERIOD. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 057/089 060/083 054 103 GCK 055/089 057/082 054 204 EHA 056/092 055/089 055 203 LBL 056/090 057/089 057 203 HYS 056/089 058/0<76 053 204 P28 057/090 063/085 060 002 .DDC...NONE. KRUSE/MCCAMMON
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:41 UTC.
Event by event
16 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Rush
- When
- May 8, 4:21 PM CST
- Where
- Rush County, 2 mi N of La Crosse
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.567, -99.300
Hail, Rush
- When
- May 8, 4:32 PM CST
- Where
- Rush County, 4 mi N of La Crosse
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.583, -99.300
Hail, Rush
- When
- May 8, 5:07 PM CST
- Where
- Rush County, 2 mi S of Rush Center
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.433, -99.300
Hail, Pawnee
- When
- May 8, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County, 1 mi NW of Ash Valley
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.317, -99.233
Hail, Pawnee
- When
- May 8, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County, 7 mi W of Ash Valley
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.300, -99.350
Hail, Pawnee
- When
- May 8, 6:08 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County, 3 mi W of Larned
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 38.183, -99.150
Hail, Edwards
- When
- May 8, 6:46 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County, 2 mi NE of Kinsley
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 37.933, -99.383
Hail, Edwards
- When
- May 8, 6:53 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County, Kinsley
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 37.917, -99.417
Hail, Edwards
- When
- May 8, 7:04 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County, 3 mi S of Lewis
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.883, -99.250
Hail, Edwards
- When
- May 8, 7:23 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County, 8 mi S of Lewis
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.817, -99.250
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 8, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County, 7 mi NNW of Greensburg
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.700, -99.350
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 8, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County, Greensburg
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.600, -99.300
Hail swath in the vicinity was 13 miles long and 2 miles wide. Considerable of crop damage.
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 8, 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County, 6 mi S of Greensburg
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.517, -99.300
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 8, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County, 8 mi SSE of Greensburg
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -99.250
Hail, Comanche
- When
- May 8, 8:48 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County, 7 mi NNE of Coldwater
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.367, -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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
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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: 5246928, 5246929, 5246930, 5246931, 5246932, 5246933, 5246934, 5246935, 5246936, 5246937, 5246938, 5246939, 5246940, 5246941, 5246942, 5246943.