Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 19, 2002
Start: 2002-07-19T14:33
End: 2002-07-19T15:10
Location: Kansas

July 19, 2002 · NWS TOP · 5 events in 2 counties and zones

3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 5

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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 2:28 PM CST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:28 PM CST, 5 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.

FRANTZ

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:31 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jefferson

When: July 19, 2:33 PM CST
Where: Jefferson County, 1 mi N of Mc Louth
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.217, -95.217

Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson

When: July 19, 2:33 PM CST
Where: Jefferson County, Mc Louth
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 39.200, -95.217

Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson

When: July 19, 2:44 PM CST
Where: Jefferson County, Oskaloosa
Measured: 57 kt (66 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.217, -95.317

Hail, Douglas

When: July 19, 3:05 PM CST
Where: Douglas County, Worden
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.783, -95.333

Hail, Douglas

When: July 19, 3:10 PM CST
Where: Douglas County, Baldwin
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.767, -95.183

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5303579, 5303580, 5303581, 5303582, 5303583.