Hail, Jackson
- When
- June 19, 7:32 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County, Kansas City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 39.083, -94.567
Flash Flood and Hail in Missouri, June 19, 2001
2 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 12:30 PM CST, 7 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 12:30 PM CST, 7 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 130 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001 MAIN CHALLENGE TO FORECAST WILL BE TIMING OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY THROUGH CWA...AND ITS IMPACT ON TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION CHANCES. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...COLD FRONT BISECTING FORECAST AREA...EXTENDING ROUGHLY FROM JUST SOUTH KIRK TO NEAR KMCI. DESPITE WEAK LLJ...MORNING CONVECTION HAS LINGERED LONGER THAN EXPECTED OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. AS A RESULT...THE AMOUNT OF SURFACE HEATING HAS BEEN LIMITED...ALONG WITH THE SUBSEQUENT DESTABILIZATION. HAVE SEEN MORE SUN OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...RESULTING IN SIGNIFICANT TIGHTENING OF THERMAL GRADIENT ALONG BOUNDARY...WITH TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM THE UPPER 50S IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...TO THE MIDDLE 80S IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. WITH THIS SAID...AGREE WITH LATEST SWOMCD FROM SPC...AND WILL BE WATCHING PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION FURTHER WEST...HOWEVER RIGHT NOW IT APPEARS THAT BEST THREAT APPEARS TO BE IN SOUTHEAST PART OF CWA. MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE WEAK SHORTWAVES MOVING ALONG THE FRONT THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING...PRODUCING OVERRUNNING PRECIPITATION ACROSS NORTHERN PORTION OF FORECAST AREA. AM PLANNING TO CONTINUE LIKELY POPS FOR MOST AREAS TONIGHT. FRONT SHOULD GET SHOVE SOUTH OVERNIGHT...AS UPPER TROUGH OVER EASTERN UNITED STATES DEEPENS...ALLOWING COOL/DRY SURFACE HIGH TO BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS FOR THE LATER HALF OF THE WEEK. IN THE EXTENDED...MRF APPEARS TO BE TRENDING MORE TOWARDS CANADIAN SOLUTION OF BUILDING SIGNIFICANT UPPER RIDGING INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS TOWARDS THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. ALTHOUGH...AT THIS POINT...THE MRF IS NOT QUITE AS STRONG WITH THIS FEATURE AS CANADIAN. IN ANY CASE...IT LOOKS AS IF COOL DOWN FOR THE END OF THIS WEEK WILL BE SHORT-LIVED. WILL NOT STRAY FAR FROM GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. .EAX... KS...NONE. MO...NONE. MJM
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:31 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Jackson
- When
- June 19, 7:55 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County, Courtney
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.167, -94.400
Flash Flood, Platte
- When
- June 19, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Platte County, Edgerton
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.381, -94.774 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rains up to 5 inches fell over the area, resulting in several roads and highways being closed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Illinois, June 19, 2001
- Flooding in Kansas, June 19 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Kansas, June 19, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 19 to 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, 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: 5253014, 5253015, 5253016.