Hail, Ford
- When
- April 20, 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Ford County, Dodge City
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 37.750, -100.017
The hail stones were mushy.
Hail in Kansas, April 20, 2002
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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 20, 1:08 AM CST, 8 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 1:08 AM CST, 8 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 208 AM CDT SAT APR 20 2002 DAYS 1-2... MID/UPPER TROP SHORT WAVE TROF NOTED IN THE WATER VAPOR LOOP OVER SOUTHERN UTAH AND CENTRAL ARIZONA THIS MORNING. SURFACE FRONT DRAPED ALONG RED RIVER OF OKLAHOMA WESTWARD TO EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO WITH NICE BAROCLINIC ZONE JUST TO OUR SOUTH PER THE 0Z UPPER AIR DATA. STARTING TO SEE SOME RADAR RETURNS OVER THE PANHANDLES INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA WHERE WAA AND ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE IS OCCURRING. MODELS FORECAST THE WAA/ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE TO CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS OVER THE CWA. BEST INSTABILITY APPEARS TO BE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN CWA BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. THEREFORE, WILL KEEP CURRENT POPS GOING AND MENTION -TSRA OVER THE SE CWA TODAY AND TONIGHT. ELSEWHERE, WILL JUST MENTION RAIN. BECAUSE OF EXTENSIVE CLOUD OVERHEAD, TEMPS WILL ONLY SLOWLY INCREASE THROUGHOUT TODAY. ONLY FLY IN OINTMENT, POTENTIALLY, WILL BE OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CWA WHERE DRYSLOT COULD WORK ITS WAY OVER THAT PORTION OF THE CWA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT THIS POINT, I PREFER THE ETA/MESOETAS IDEA OF KEEPING ALL BUT THE VERY FAR SOUTHWESTERN CWA UNDER CLOUD TODAY. SO, HIGHS FOR TODAY WILL REFLECT THIS THINKING. FOR TONIGHT...WILL KEEP POPS GOING OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA DUE TO UPWARD VERT VELS CONTINUING INTO THE EVENING HOURS. UPPER WAVE WILL BE JUST EAST OF THE CWA BY SUNRISE SUNDAY WITH A WEAKER VORT JUST TO ITS UPSTREAM. AS A RESULT, CURRENT FEELING IS THAT CWA WILL HANG ONTO THE MID/UPPER CLOUDS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. SURFACE LOW WILL HAVE MOVED TO EASTERN MISSOURI BY SUNRISE, THEREFORE, WINDS WILL GRADUALLY BECOME NORTH WITH TIME. FOR SUNDAY...UPPER TROF WILL BE TO THE CWAS EAST BY AFTERNOON. CLOUDS WILL EXIT THE EASTERN CWA BY MIDDAY. UPSHOT IS THAT WILL PLAN TO GRADIENT HIGHS FROM COLD TO WARM EAST TO WEST. PCPN LOOKS TO BE NIL THIS PERIOD. DAYS 3-7... NO CHANGES. PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST. DDC 47 39 62 36 / 70 50 0 0 GCK 48 37 63 36 / 70 30 0 0 EHA 56 40 70 38 / 70 0 0 0 LBL 55 42 67 37 / 70 0 0 0 HYS 42 39 62 35 / 70 40 0 0 P28 54 42 64 37 / 70 80 0 0 .DDC...NONE. MCCAMMON
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 4 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:45 UTC.
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
- Tornado in Missouri, April 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 20, 2002
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, April 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 20, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, April 20 to 21, 2002
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, April 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail in Kansas, April 20, 2002
- Avalanche in Alaska, April 20, 2002
- Flood in Ohio, April 20 to 22, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 20, 2002
- Blizzard in Alaska, April 20, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 2002
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: 5292581.