Name: Hail in Kansas, July 11, 2002
Start: 2002-07-11T02:15
End: 2002-07-11T02:15
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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 11, 1:40 AM CST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 1:40 AM CST, 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
240 AM CDT THU JUL 11 2002

DAYS 1-2...

PERSISTENT MID/UPPER TROP HIGH WILL REMAIN ANCHORED OVER THE WESTERN
CONUS. UPPER LOW OVER MINNESOTA WILL MOVE SOUTH DURING THE NEXT 48
HOURS. AT THE SURFACE, SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES HELPING TO MASK
COLD FRONT OVER THE CWA EARLY THIS MORNING. BULK OF COOLER AIR,
HOWEVER, REMAINS OVER NEBRASKA. WITH ONGOING MORNING CONVECTION AND
OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES LITTERING THE CWA FOR THIS AFTERNOON, WILL PLAN
TO CARRY CHANCE POPS CWA-WIDE FOR TODAY. WITH CAA AND MORE CLOUD
OVERHEAD, HIGHS TODAY WILL BE SOME 10 DEGS COOLER THAN WHAT OCCURRED
WEDNESDAY.

FOR TONIGHT...COOLER AND SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR WILL WORK ITS WAY SOUTH
OVER THE CWA DURING TONIGHT. WITH BEST LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE OVER THE SE CWA, WILL PLAN TO CARRY CHANCE POPS THIS
AREA. LOWS WILL BE CLOSE TO FWC NUMBERS.

FOR FRIDAY...COOLER AIR WILL BE IN PLACE THIS PERIOD. HIGHS WILL BE
PROBLEMATIC BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF CLOUD. WITH UPPER LOW JUST TO
OUR NORTHEAST BY FRIDAY, LOWER CLOUDS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE
CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA. AT THIS POINT, WILL GRADIENT HIGHS FROM
COOLEST TO WARMEST NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST. POPS FOR FRIDAY AND
FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BE NIL.

DAYS 3-7...

GOING EXTENDED LOOKS ON TRACK AND NO CHANGES ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
CYCLE.  TOOK A QUICK LOOK AT ETA, AVN AND UKMET AND THE DRY TREND
SEEMS REASONABLE.  BACK INTO THE OVEN HEATER BY SATURDAY AND
CONTINUING INTO TUESDAY.  BY DAY 7, WEDNESDAY, THERE MAY BE ENOUGH
MOISTURE RETURN FROM GULF TO GENERATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS.

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE DODGE CITY ZONE FORECAST.

DDC   88  60  84  61 /  30   0   0   0
GCK   90  61  87  60 /  40   0   0   0
EHA   92  60  91  60 /  50   0   0   0
LBL   92  62  90  60 /  50   0   0   0
HYS   88  60  84  61 /  30   0   0   0
P28   93  62  86  62 /  40  30   0   0

.DDC...NONE.

16/12

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:13 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Finney

When: July 11, 2:15 AM CST
Where: Finney County, Garden City
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.967, -100.867

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: 5310367.