Name: Hail in Kansas, April 27, 2002
Start: 2002-04-27T00:25
End: 2002-04-27T00:25
Location: Kansas

Where it happened

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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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 26, 2:20 PM CST, 10 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 2:20 PM CST, 10 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
320 PM CDT FRI APR 26 2002

MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS FOR TODAY ARE RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT AND SEVERE
THREAT ON SATURDAY.

LARGE AREA OF OVERRUNNING LIGHT RAIN AND DENSE CLOUD COVER AFFECTED
THE AREA TODAY. TEMPERATURES SHOULDNT DROP OFF TOO MUCH UNDER LOW
CLOUDS TONIGHT. MADE NO LARGE CHANGES TO FORECAST OVERALL. USED
ETA/MESO ETA AS PRIMARY FORECAST GUIDE THROUGH EARLY PERIODS.

STRONG WAA/MOISTURE ADVECTION WILL OCCUR OVER THE CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN PLAINS TONIGHT IN ADVANCE OF DEEPENING SURFACE SYSTEM OVER
THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTHWARD THROUGH THE
AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. PRECIPITATION EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN
COUNTIES LATE THIS EVENING THEN SPREAD QUICKLY EAST WITH STRONG 85H
JET PUMPING MOISTURE INTO ENTIRE FORECAST REGION BY 12Z.

FOR SATURDAY...CLOUDS MAY HAMPER DESTABILIZATION FOR STRONG
UPDRAFTS...BUT OTHER THERMODYNAMIC AND SHEAR VALUES LOOK RIPE FOR
SEVERE WEATHER. STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BOOST
DEWPOINTS UP INTO THE 60S ON SATURDAY. 28/00Z PROGGED SGF SOUNDING
YIELDS 0-3KM STORM RELATIVE HELICITY YIELDS VALUES OF 450 M2/S2 WITH
CAPES OF 2500 J/KG AS DRYLINE MOVES INTO WESTERN COUNTIES (BASED ON
A SFC TEMPERATURE IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S). WE WILL NEED THE SFC
HEATING TOMORROW TO REACH THESE TEMPERATURES AND SEVERE WEATHER
CHANCES WILL HINGE ON THE ATMOSPHERES ABILITY TO RECOVER/RELOAD
SATURDAY AFTERNOON. WILL MENTION A CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS IN THE
PUBLIC ZONES.

QUIET WEATHER ON TAP FOR LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND THE FIRST PART OF
THE UPCOMING WORK WEEK WITH HIGH BUILDING IN. ECMWF THE PRIMARY TOOL
FOR THE EXTENDED. STRONG SYSTEM TO MOVE INTO THE PLAINS TUESDAY WITH
FRONT SLOWLY MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY. WILL
LEAVE RAIN CHANCES IN FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AND KEEP THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY DRY WITH SFC HIGH BUILDING INTO THE REGION.
OVERALL...QUICK ZONAL FLOW PATTERN WILL MAKE PRECIPITATION CHANCES
DIFFICULT TO TIME.

PRELIMINARY ISC GRIDS HAVE BEEN SENT.

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

DSA

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:23 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bourbon

When: April 27, 12:25 AM CST
Where: Bourbon County, Ft Scott
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.833, -94.700

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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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: 5292206.