Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 11 to 12, 2002
Start: 2002-06-11T20:10
End: 2002-06-12T20:10
Location: Kansas

June 11 to 12, 2002 · NWS GLD · 9 events in 4 counties and zones

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

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 9

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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 12:00 PM MST, 8 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 12:00 PM MST, 8 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
100 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

CHALLENGES REMAIN CHANCES FOR PRECIP TONIGHT (PARTICULARLY) THROUGH
WED NIGHT.

SURFACE FRONT REMAINS STATIONARY IN VCNTY A LINE FROM ELKHART TO
ELLIS TO SMITH CENTER. THIS APPEARS WOULD BE A KEY INITIATION AREA
OF TSRAS THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER MODELS INDICATE EMPHASIS WILL SHIFT
OR SPREAD DURING NIGHT ACROSS NW KS IN RESPONSE TO MID LEVEL TROUGH
MOVING INTO AREA BY MIDNIGHT FROM CO.

MODELS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MID AREA OF COUNTRY BETWEEN BIG UPPER
LOW OVER MT/CANADA BORDER AND WESTERN EDGE OF VERY MOIST AIR FROM TX
PANHANDLE NE THRU CEN KS TO MN. WEAK S/WS MOVING ACROSS AREA FROM
WEST TO EAST WHICH KICK OFF SIG TSRA ACTIVITY AS THEY APPROACH DEEP
MOISTURE. MODELS NOT DOING WELL ON PICKING UP TIMING AND INTENSITY
OF S/WS MASKED IN VERY DRY AIR. WILL LEAN TOWARD AVN...BUT IN
REALITY A MIX...FOR MODEL TO FOLLOW.

TIMING PROBLEMS NOW ENHANCED/SHARPENED TO NW OF FRONT BY INCREASING
UPSLOPE (NE-E) LOW LEVEL FLOW INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE BEHIND
FRONT. TONIGHT MODELS SHOWING THETAE RIDGE TO EXTEND A FINGER
WESTWARD OVER NW KS INTO FAR E CO...PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 06Z-15Z.
70H S/W TO PASS OVER CWA DURING SAME TIME PERIOD. SO WILL GO WITH
LIKELY TSRAS CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR KANORADO ON KS/CO LINE
EAST TO VCNTY OF HILL CITY WITH EMPHASIS OF ACTIVITY DURING ABOVE
PD. WILL PROBABLY START WITH SOME SEVERE AND AS ACTIVITY SPREADS
TREND TOWARD MCS AND MORE WIDESPREAD/GENERAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.
PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS INCREASING LATE AND MODELS SHOW .75 TO
1.00 VALUES COMMON AT THAT TIME IN AREA NOTED. WILL LESSEN TO CHANCE
POPS FROM NE BORDER NORTH AND IN EXTREME SOUTHERN PTN CWA. OF COURSE
ALL DEPENDS ON POSITION AND TRACK OF VORT AND RESULT
MCS.

MODELS SHOW ACTIVITY SLOW TO MOVE EAST OUT OF AREA WED SO WILL KEEP
CHANCE POPS THROUGHOUT DAY. MODELS SHOW ANOTHER SURGE OF CAA IN LOW
LEVELS WED EVENING AND ANOTHER S/W. HOWEVER LOOKS DRIER BY THEN AS
UPPER LOW (CENTERED NEAR ND/CANADA BORDER) MOVES EAST WITH SOUTH
AXIS MOVING THROUGH PLAINS PUSHING MOIST AIR FURTHER EAST. SO WILL
GO WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER POPS WEDS EVENING. THU AM SFC HIGH BEGINS TO
MOVE/RIDGE SE INTO AREA FROM MT...BOTH DRYING AND COOLING AREA.
LOWEST TEMPS OF WEEK/PD STILL LOOK TO BE FRI AM WITH SOME AREAS
DROPPING INTO 40S.

UPPER LOW MOVES INTO GREAT LAKES AREA FRI/SAT AND RIDGE TO WEST
BEGINS TO BUILD AND MOVE INTO PLAINS AREA. WILL STAY WITH CHANCE
TSRAS SAT AS S/W STILL INDICATED TO COME SE THROUGH HALTING RIDGE NW
FLOW. WARMUP BEGINS SUN WITH PC SKIES AND TEMPS RETURNING TO NORMAL.
BY TUE WARM-TO-HOT PM TEMPS IN 90S AND S/W APPROACHING BRINGS RETURN
OF TSRA CHANCES.

.GLD...NONE.

RJC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:11 PM MST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
811 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0807 PM    13 NNW WILD HORSE         CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/02   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:33 PM MST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
833 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    21 S STRATTON             CO   1 INCH HAIL
06/11/02   KIT CARSON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:41 PM MST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
841 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0835 PM    12 NNW KIT CARSON         CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/02   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:50 PM MST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
850 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0820 PM    15 S BETHUNE              CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/02   KIT CARSON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:53 PM MST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
853 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0851 PM    14 N ARAPAHOE             CO   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/11/02   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0851 PM    14 N ARAPAHOE             CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/02   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 11, 8:03 PM MST, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
903 PM MDT TUE JUN 11 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0851 PM    14 N ARAPAHOE             CO   74 MPH TSTM GUST
06/11/02   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER. LOST POWER.

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:08 UTC.

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Event by event

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

Thunderstorm Wind, Wallace

When: June 11, 8:10 PM MST to June 12, 8:10 PM MST
Where: Wallace County, 17 mi N of Weskan
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 39.117, -101.967

Thunderstorm Wind, Wallace

When: June 11, 8:32 PM MST
Where: Wallace County, Sharon Spgs
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.883, -101.733

Hail, Wallace

When: June 11, 8:37 PM MST
Where: Wallace County, 7 mi NE of Sharon Spgs
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.950, -101.633

Hail, Wallace

When: June 11, 8:42 PM MST
Where: Wallace County, Wallace
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.917, -101.583

Hail, Logan

When: June 11, 8:57 PM MST
Where: Logan County, 8 mi SW of Mc Allaster
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 38.917, -101.500

Hail, Greeley

When: June 11, 8:57 PM MST
Where: Greeley County, 13 mi N of Tribune
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.650, -101.750

Hail, Greeley

When: June 11, 9:12 PM MST
Where: Greeley County, Tribune
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.467, -101.750

Hail, Wichita

When: June 11, 9:30 PM MST
Where: Wichita County, 7 mi W of Leoti
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.483, -101.483

Hail, Wichita

When: June 11, 9:45 PM MST
Where: Wichita County, 1 mi W of Leoti
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.483, -101.367

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.
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

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: 5306506, 5306510, 5306511, 5306512, 5306507, 5306513, 5306508, 5306509, 5306514.