3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 26, 1:19 PM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 219 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002 RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING THEN TEMPERATURES ARE THE MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED ALONG COLD FRONT DRIFTING SOUTH INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. MORE STORMS WERE CONTINUING TO BUILD OUT WEST NEAR MCV. MCV MOVING SOUTH SO SHOULD NOT AFFECT THE CWA. COLD FRONT WAS MAKING STEADY PROGRESS AND WILL BEGIN AFFECTING THE CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. LAPS DATA SHOWS INSTABILITY AXIS JUST AHEAD OF FRONT FROM EASTERN IOWA TO NORTHEAST KANSAS. CAPES ARE AROUND 3000 J/KG IN FAR NORTHEAST KANSAS WITH CAP WEAKENING. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE TO FIRE ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS IT MOVES INTO NORTHERN CWA. NORTHEAST ZONES ARE LIKELY TO SEE SCATTERED STORMS THIS EVENING...WITH OTHER AREAS WEST AND SOUTH WITH CHANCE POPS TONIGHT. FRONT LIMPS THROUGH THE CWA BY MORNING...BUT WILL MAINTAIN SLIGHT CHANCE FOR MORNING SHOWERS IN THE SOUTH. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER WITH NORTHEAST WINDS AND LOWER DEW POINTS ON THURSDAY. REST OF THE FORECAST WILL BE DOMINATED BY INCREASING HEIGHTS ALOFT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING THROUGH TONIGHT WILL WASH OUT BEFORE A RETURN TRIP CAN BE MADE...AND ANY UPPER IMPULSES WILL HARD TO PIN DOWN EARLY NEXT WEEK. SO WILL CONTINUE DRY FORECAST WITH TEMPERATURES INCREASING INTO THE 90S BY THE WEEKEND AND PERSISTING THROUGH WEDNESDAY. BASICALLY A RETURN TO SUMMERTIME PATTERN OF LATE. .TOP...NONE 62
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
610 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0555 PM 6 WSW HIAWATHA KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/26/02 BROWN QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0602 PM POWHATTAN KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/26/02 BROWN REPORTED BY SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
619 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM 7 E HOLTON KS .88 INCH HAIL
06/26/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0610 PM 7 E HOLTON KS 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
623 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0622 PM DENISON KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
629 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0621 PM 2 NW VALLEY FALLS KS 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JEFFERSON
0625 PM DENISON KS 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JACKSON 26 INCH TREE
SNAPPED/VISIBILITY NEAR
ZERO IN HEAVY RAIN AND
SMALL HAILPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
634 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM VALLEY FALLS KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JEFFERSON 60 MPH WIND ALL AROUND
VALLEY FALLS
0631 PM 3 NE VALLEY FALLS KS 60-70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JEFFERSON STRAIGHT LINE WINDSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
643 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM 3 E MERIDEN KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/02 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MGT.The Topeka radar (KTWX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a grain elevator and started a fire that damaged a filtering system.
A funnel cloud was sighted near Lake Perry dam.
Strong winds damaged a roof in Topeka.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2002
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: 5298520, 5298521, 5298522, 5298523, 5298524.