Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 26, 2002

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 26, 2002
Start: 2002-06-26T15:55
End: 2002-06-26T18:30
Location: Kansas

June 26, 2002 · NWS EAX · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $250,000
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 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 Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 1:06 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:06 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
206 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

WEAK COLD FRONT OVER IOWA AND NEBRASKA CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTH VERY
SLOWLY. SHORT RANGE MODELS AGREE ON THAT...HOWEVER FINAL PLACEMENT
DIFFERS QUITE A BIT BETWEEN THE AVN AND ETA. THE AVN GRADUALLY
PUSHES IT TO NEAR THE MISSOURI/ARKANSAS BORDER BY MIDDAY THURSDAY.
WHILE THE ETA HANGS IT UP AROUND THE MISSOURI RIVER. PREFER AN
AVN/ETA COMPROMISE...HANGING THE FRONT UP ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI
BY MIDDAY TOMORROW.

SURFACE BASED CAPE AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS FROM 2000-3000J/KG...WITH
LI/S FROM -3 TO -6. SHEAR IS FAIRLY WEAK...HOWEVER THERE WILL LIKELY
BE SOME ENHANCED SHEAR RIGHT ALONG THE FRONT. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
DEVELOPED ALONG THE FRONT IN SOUTHWEST IOWA. EXPECT THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT TO CONTINUE ALONG THE FRONT...MAINLY TO THE SOUTHWEST OF
THE INITIAL STORM...WHERE SURFACE CONVERGENCE IS STRONGER. BEST
UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS IS NORTHEAST OF THE FORECAST AREA SO DO NOT
EXPECT WIDESPREAD CONVECTION. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS OVERNIGHT AS
THE FRONT PUSHES SOUTH.

CONDITIONS WILL BE SIMILAR TOMORROW...BUT AS WAS STATED
BEFORE...EXPECT THE FRONT TO BE JUST SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA BY
MIDDAY. DESPITE BEING NORTH OF THE FRONT...DEW POINTS ARE NOT
FALLING OFF VERY QUICKLY. SO WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES ALOFT AND DEW
POINTS REMAINING IN THE 60S...EXPECT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
TO DEVELOP...MAINLY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.

MEDIUM RANGE MODELS TRY TO BRING A FRONT NEAR THE FORECAST AREA
MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER WILL CONTINUE A DRY
FORECAST FOR NOW AS TIMING AND CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT IS STILL
A QUESTION. FEEL CHANCES AT THIS POINT ARE LESS THAN 30 PERCENT.
MADE ONLY MINOR TWEAKS TO TEMPERATURES THROUGH DAY 7.

NRR

315 AM...
ALL QUIET ON THE NORTHWESTERN FRONT THIS MORNING...AS CONVECTION
HAS DISSIPATED FOR THE MOST PART.  SURFACE COLD FRONT DRAPED FROM
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...ACROSS NORTHWEST IOWA INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
FRONT WILL PUSH INTO NORTHWEST PART OF FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING...
AND SHOULD MAKE IT SOUTH OF THE I-70 CORRIDOR LATER TONIGHT.  HIGH
THETAE AIR WILL BE IN PLACE ALONG THE BOUNDARY...WITH ETA SBCAPE
OF GREATER THAN 2500 J/KG PREDICTED FOR LATER TODAY.  WITH LACK
OF DYNAMIC SUPPORT...THERMODYNAMIC AND FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING
WILL BE THE DRIVING FACTORS FOR CONVECTION. CAP BEGINS TO ERODE
ACROSS NORTHWEST CORNER OF FORECAST AREA BY LATE MORNING...SO
INTRODUCED CHANCE OF MORNING STORMS IN THIS AREA.  BY LATE
AFTERNOON...SHOULD SEE CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHERN THIRD OF CWA.
SURFACE CONVERGENCE LOOKS FAIRLY WEAK...SO COVERAGE OF CONVECTION
WILL BE SCATTERED AT BEST...SO LEFT POPS IN CHANCE CATEGORY.
ADDITIONAL STORMS POSSIBLE IN SOUTHEAST ZONES...WHERE SHEAR ZONE
FROM ARKANSAS UPPER LOW WILL CONTINUE TO BE A FACTOR.

AS FRONT OOZES SOUTH...STORMS SHOULD REACH THE KANSAS
CITY...WARRENSBURG AND BOONVILLE AREAS BY EARLY EVENING...AND THE
SOUTHERN TIER OF ZONES BY MID-EVENING. SHEAR PROFILES LOOK WEAK...SO
NOT OVERLY IMPRESSED WITH SEVERE POTENTIAL.  HOWEVER...SOUNDINGS
DISPLAY SOMEWHAT OF AN INVERTED-V LOOK BY THIS EVENING...SO COULD
SEE ISOLATED MICROBURST ACTIVITY.  STORMS WILL COME TO AN END IN THE
NORTHWEST CORNER BY LATE EVENING...AND ALONG THE I-70 CORRIDOR BY
EARLY THURSDAY.  DO TO SLOW MOVEMENT OF FRONT...CHANCE OF STORMS
ALONG SOUTHERN TIER OF ZONES THURSDAY LOOKS REASONABLE.  THREAT OF
CONVECTION WILL END ACROSS ALL OF FORECAST AREA BY THURSDAY
NIGHT...AS SURFACE HIGH BUILDS INTO AREA.  THE LATTER PART OF THE
WEEK WILL OFFER A BREAK FROM THE WARM WEATHER OF RECENT DAYS.  AREA
WILL CONTINUE TO BE INFLUENCE BY EAST COAST TROUGH AND SURFACE HIGH
THROUGH THE WEEKEND...WITH HEAT OF BUILDING WESTERN U.S. RIDGE
HOLDING OFF UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK.  AFTER TODAY AND THURSDAY...DO
NOT SEE ANY GOOD CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION.  AVN SHOWING WEAK
ISENTROPIC LIFT ACROSS WESTERN ZONES BY SUNDAY MORNING...HOWEVER
AXIS OF BETTER LIFT AND MOISTURE LOOKS TO BE WELL WEST OF FORECAST
AREA...SO WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY.

SF

HAVE MADE MINOR CHANGES TO GRIDS/ZONES FOR MORNING HOURS. HAVE TAKEN
OUT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI.
CONVECTION IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA HAS DIMINISHED...AND SHOULD
DISSIPATE BEFORE REACHING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI THIS
MORNING.

LS

EAX...
KS...NONE
MO...NONE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 2:03 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
303 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

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

0242 PM    HOPKINS                   MO   1 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   NODAWAY                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 2:16 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
316 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

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

0305 PM    SHERIDAN                  MO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   WORTH                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0305 PM    SHERIDAN                  MO   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/02   WORTH                          TREES DOWN IN AND
                                          AROUND SHERIDAN.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:13 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
413 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

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

0340 PM    JAMESON                   MO   65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02   DAVIESS                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:13 PM CST, 42 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ004-006>008-011>017-020>025-028>032-037-
038-043-044-053-054-270200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
413 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMBER 475...IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING. THIS
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN MISSOURI:

ADAIR...ANDREW...BATES...BUCHANAN...CALDWELL...CARROLL...CASS...
CHARITON...CLAY...CLINTON...DAVIESS...DE KALB...GENTRY...GRUNDY...
HENRY...HOLT...JACKSON...JOHNSON...LAFAYETTE...LINN...LIVINGSTON...
MACON...MERCER...PLATTE...PUTNAM...RAY...SCHUYLER AND SULLIVAN.

IN KANSAS:

ATCHISON...DONIPHAN...JOHNSON...LEAVENWORTH...LINN...MIAMI AND
WYANDOTTE.

SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE ATCHISON...
BUTLER...CHILLICOTHE...CLINTON...HARRISONVILLE...KANSAS CITY...
KIRKSVILLE...OLATHE...PAOLA...ST JOSEPH...TRENTON AND WARRENSBURG.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:31 PM CST, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
431 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

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

0355 PM    MAITLAND                  MO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   HOLT                           REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0415 PM    OREGON                    MO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   HOLT                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0420 PM    7 N OREGON                MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02   HOLT                           WINDS ESTIMATED TO 60
                                          MPH AT SQUAW CREEK
                                          TRUCK STOP . REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:48 PM CST, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
448 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

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

0436 PM    1 W FILLMORE              MO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02   ANDREW                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:53 UTC.

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Event by event

2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Doniphan

When: June 26, 3:55 PM CST
Where: Doniphan County, 3 mi SW of Highland
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 39.817, -95.300

Thunderstorm Wind, Johnson

When: June 26, 6:00 PM CST
Where: Johnson County, Leawood
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph)
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.950, -94.617

6 inch tree limbs downed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Johnson

When: June 26, 6:30 PM CST
Where: Johnson County, Olathe
Measured: 70 kt (81 mph)
Property damage: $250,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 38.883, -94.817

Thunderstorm winds ripped off portions of a roof on a VFW building and a Toys "R" Us building. Numerous trees were uprooted. Tractor trailer rigs were overturned. Power lines were also downed and power poles were snapped in two. The downtown jail reported damage.

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.

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: 5301508, 5301509, 5301510.