Name: Hail in Kansas, June 11, 2002
Start: 2002-06-11T03:06
End: 2002-06-11T03:06
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 Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 2:32 PM CST, 12 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:32 PM CST, 12 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
332 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

HOW HIGH TO GO ON PROBABILITY CHANCES THE NEXT 48 HOURS MAIN CONCERN
ALONG WITH POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN AND AREAS OF SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE AND SHOULD CONTINUE
THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.  THIS ALL COUPLED WITH MODELS SHOWING SEVERAL
EMBEDDED UPPER IMPULSES ADDING TO THE LIFT POTENTIAL.  WILL GO WITH
LIKELY POPS OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF CWA
TONIGHT.  THUNDERSTORMS ERUPTING OVER SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF STATE
AND SHOULD MARCH NORTHEAST INTO CENTRAL PORTIONS OF STATE DURING
EVENING...AND HEAD NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT.

PROBLEM FOR TOMORROW IS BOUNDARYS AND FRONTAL POSITIONS.  SHOULD
HAVE SOME LEFT OVER CONVECTION FAR EAST AND THEN EXPECT ACTIVITY TO
REFIRE IN AFTERNOON HOURS.  GIVEN TEMPS TODAY...HAVE RAISED NUMBERS
A TAD FOR FAR WESTERN PORTIONS ON HIGHS FOR TUESDAY.  TUESDAY NIGHT
WEDNESDAY...MAIN FRONT SAGS ACROSS AREA AND SHOULD ENHANCE
PRECIPITATION CHANCES.  AVN/FWC NUMBERS POPS LOOK A LITTLE LOW GIVEN
THE AIR MASS.  HAVE RAISED POPS AND MENTIONED SOME HEAVY RAINS
POSSIBLE FOR TUESDAY NIGHT.  QUESTION ON HOW MUCH TO TRIM HIGHS FOR
WEDNESDAY GIVEN EXPECTED PRECIP.  WENT ALONG WITH GOING FORECAST FOR
NOW...AND KEEPING POPS IN THE LIKELY RANGE.  PRECIP SHOULD GRADUALLY
EXIT AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

BEYOND THIS...KEPT GOING FORECAST DRY BUT NORTHWEST FLOW SUNDAY
INTO MONDAY COULD POSES SOME THREATS.  THOUGHT WE WOULD WAIT ONE
MORE RUN.  OTHERWISE LOWERED GOING TEMPS A TAD FOR HIGHS THURSDAY
INTO SATURDAY...WARMING UP A TAD SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

.TOP...NONE
FRANTZ

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:07 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Cloud

When: June 11, 3:06 AM CST
Where: Cloud County, Jamestown
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 39.600, -97.867

What these are

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

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Kansas in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Kansas, June 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: 5298384.