Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- July 19, 3:51 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, 1 mi NW of Centropolis
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.733, -95.367
Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
Thunderstorms developed over northeast Kansas at mid afternoon of the 19th and moved south into east central Kansas during the late afternoon. Many became severe and produced numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds.
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 happened
The episode as NWS TOP wrote it up.
Thunderstorms developed over northeast Kansas at mid afternoon of the 19th and moved south into east central Kansas during the late afternoon. Many became severe and produced numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds. Damage reports were described above.
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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 2:28 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:28 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
328 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
HEAT AND HUMIDITY CONTINUE TO BE MAIN CONCERNS OVER THE WEEKEND THEN
PRECIPITATION CHANCES SUNDAY TO TUESDAY AND AT END OF WEEK.
HEAT INDICES HAVE REACHED THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE THIS
AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF CWA EXCEPT PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL. OVERNIGHT
LAST NIGHT HEAT INDICES WERE IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S. CANT SEE
MUCH CHANGING OVER THE WEEKEND THUS WILL GO WITH A HEAT ADVISORY FOR
ALL OF CWA. MAY BE BORDER LINE AT NIGHT AND OVER FAR WESTERN
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL CWA.
IN THE SHORT TERM...CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES REACHED THIS AFTERNOON
AND HAVE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA WILL
CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. FOR SATURDAY...COULD NOT RULE OUT A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS POPPING UP AGAIN BUT MODELS SHOWING A LITTLE WARMER
MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES...THUS WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY AND LET
OVERNIGHT CREW EVALUATE FURTHER. LOOKING FOR HIGHS AGAIN FROM UPPER
90S TO AROUND 105 DEGREES...CLOSER TO MET GUID. SIMILAR THINKING FOR
SUNDAY.
SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY...AVIATION AND ETA AT 60 HOURS SHOWING
SHORTWAVE ENERGY HELPING PUSH SURFACE FRONT SOUTH. THINK GOING
FORECAST ON TARGET AND LOOKS SOME OF THE BETTER CHANCES FOR MORE
WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION CHANCES ON MONDAY...INTO MONDAY
NIGHT...LINGERING TUESDAY AM. TEMPS COOLING TO AROUND 90 FOR MONDAY
AND TUESDAY...DEPENDING ON EXTENT OF PRECIP COULD BE EVEN A TAD COOLER.
FOR THE WEDNESDAY INTO FRIDAY PERIOD...FRONT TO THE SOUTH...SOME
RIDGING ALOFT SO A BREAK IN PRECIPITATION CHANCES. ON THURSDAY
ECMWF SHOWING SHORTWAVE IN NORTHWEST FLOW...WHICH 00Z AVN EXTENDED
CONTINUED TREND INTO FRIDAY. HAVE THUS PUT IN SOME SLIGHT CHANCES
FOR PRECIP AND WILL LET OTHER SHIFTS REFINE. THICKINESSS SUPPORT
MEX NUMBERS FOR HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S.
.TOP...HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH SUNDAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL...
NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS.
FRANTZIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 19, 2:37 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
337 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0333 PM MC LOUTH KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/02 JEFFERSONLocal storm report, Jul 19, 2:52 PM CST, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
352 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0344 PM OSKALOOSA KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/02 JEFFERSON FOUR TO SIX BRANCHES DOWNLocal storm report, Jul 19, 3:04 PM CST, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
404 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0344 PM OSKALOOSA KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/19/02 JEFFERSON FOUR TO SIX INCH LIMBS
DOWNLocal storm report, Jul 19, 3:10 PM CST, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
410 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM WORDEN KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02 DOUGLASLocal storm report, Jul 19, 3:11 PM CST, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
411 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0410 PM BALDWIN KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02 DOUGLASLocal storm report, Jul 19, 3:17 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
417 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM BALDWIN KS 2.75 INCH HAIL
07/19/02 DOUGLAS POWER LINES DOWNThe radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:52 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Osage
- When
- July 19, 4:04 PM CST
- Where
- Osage County, Overbrook
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.783, -95.550
Flash Flood, Douglas
- When
- July 19, 4:30 PM CST to 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County, Lawrence
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 38.885, -95.293 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy rains produced areas of flash flooding in parts of Douglas county.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Delaware, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 19, 2002
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2002
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: 5303589, 5303590, 5303591.