Hail, Jewell
- When
- March 8, 6:46 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, Mankato
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.783, -98.217
Hail in Kansas, March 8, 2002
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 8, 2:26 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 2:26 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 226 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE MIXED BAG OF WEATHER TONIGHT. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON LOCATION AND TIMING OF CURRENT STORM SYSTEM. SOME DISAGREEMENT ON OVERALL AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION. AFTER SYSTEM ZIPS OUT OF THE AREA...ALL MODELS BRING UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA TO RETURN QUIETER WEATHER. COLDER AIR BEGINNING TO WORK ITS WAY SOUTH AND EAST OUT OF NORTHERN PLAINS. KODX HAD BRIEF PERIOD OF FRZG DRZL BUT HAS CHANGED TO SNOW. REST OF AREA TO SEE CONTINUED PERIOD OF FRZG DRZL/RAIN THIS EVENING BUT COLD AIR TO START ITS BLAST ACROSS THE AREA AFTER SUNSET. THIS WILL QUICKLY CHANGE PRECIP OVER TO SNOW. GIVEN DYNAMICS OF SYSTEM...A FAST SHOT OF SNOW IS EXPECTED BUT IT WILL BE OCCASIONAL HEAVY AND SOME AREAS MAY PICK UP SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW. THE KANSAS ZONES AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA ZONES WILL BE THE BIG QUESTION OF WHEN CHANGE OVER WILL TAKE PLACE. FEEL THAT CHANGE WILL TAKE OVER BEFORE A MAJOR ACCUMULATION OF ICE OCCURS. THEREFORE WILL CONTINUE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TONIGHT ACROSS ENTIRE FORECAST AREA FOR COMBINATION OF FREEZING PRECIP...THEN SNOW...AND THEN WIND AND BLOWING SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE WEATHER STARTS LOOKING BETTER BY SUNRISE SATURDAY BUT WINDY CONDITIONS TO REMAIN UNTIL MIDDAY AS SYSTEM RAPIDLY LIFTS NORTHEAST. COLD AIR ADVECTION TO KEEP SKIES PARTLY CLOUDY AND TEMPS COOL. HIGHS ONLY TO BE NEAR FREEZING MARK. GRADIENT STARTS TO WEAKEN DURING THE AFTERNOON AS SURFACE HIGH SLIDES INTO OKLAHOMA. DRY ATMOSPHERE AND UPPER RIDGE HOLDS THEN THROUGH MID WEEK. A WEAK SYSTEM TRIES TO INFLUENCE PATTERN ON MONDAY BUT WILL HAVE VERY LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH SO WILL GO WITH PTCLDY SKIES. TEMPS TO WARM FROM THE 40S AND LOW 50S SUNDAY INTO THE 50S AND 60S BY TUESDAY. NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM STARTS TO WIND UP IN THE WESTERN US ON THURSDAY AND WILL BRING CHANCES FOR PRECIP FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. .GID...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ALL ZONES TONIGHT. KISNER
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:43 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 8, 2002
- Ice Storm in Iowa, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Winter Storm in Iowa, March 8 to 9, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, March 8, 2002
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Oklahoma, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, March 8 to 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, March 8, 2002
- High Wind in New Mexico, March 8, 2002
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, March 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: 5280374.