Kansas, 2002

Hail in Kansas, May 12, 2002

May 12, 2002 · NWS TOP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 May 12, 2:22 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 2:22 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
322 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 2002

SHORT TERM CONCERNS ARE LINGERING PRECIPITATION CHANCES OVERNIGHT AS
UPPER TROUGH WORKS EAST...THEN LONGER RANGE...PRECIP AND TEMPERATURE
TRENDS WEDNESDAY INTO SATURDAY.

WILL KEEP A LOW POP EAST CENTRAL AT LEAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT.  CONCERN
MAY SEE SOME SPRINKLES...LIGHT SHOWERS FURTHER NORTH EARLY TONIGHT.
OTHERWISE EXPECT CLOUDS TO THIN SOME LATE TONIGHT.  LEFT OUT ANY FOG
POTENTIAL AS BELIEVE LOW LEVELS WINDS TO STAY UP SOME.  CURRENT
FORECAST LOWS LOOK ON TRACK AND A TAD ABOVE GUIDANCE BUT AGAIN THINK
CLOUDS WILL LINGER SOME AND SHOULD KEEP SOME WIND.

MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...DRY WITH FEW CLOUDS AROUND.  TEMPS
REBOUNDING TO AROUND 70 MON AND LOW TO MID 70S TUESDAY.  PREFER THE
COOLER GUIDANCE NUMBERS FOR LOWS MONDAY NIGHT GIVEN LIGHT
WINDS...MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES.  COULD SEE SOME FOG DEVELOPMENT.

SEVERAL SHORTWAVES BEGIN TO MARCH EAST WED INTO SATURDAY.  COULD SEE
SOME WARM ADVECTION PRECIP EARLY WED...AVN LOOKS TO GO A LITTLE
OVERBOARD WITH VORT 12Z WED...FOR NOW WILL KEEP WED FCST DRY UNTIL
NIGHT WHEN SURFACE BOUNDARY SLIDES BY.  ANOTHER SHORTWAVE IN
NORTHERN STREAM COMES BY THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY GIVING PRECIP
CHANCES AGAIN.  COULD LINGER OVER EAST CENTRAL CWA ON SATURDAY SO
PUT SOME POPS BACK IN THERE.  GOING ALONG WITH CURRENT TEMP TRENDS
ALTHOUGH LATEST MEX GUIDANCE STILL COOLER FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
RIDGE BUILDING IN ON EXTENDED MODELS FOR SUNDAY...DRY AND TURNING
WARMER AGAIN.

.TOP...NONE
FRANTZ

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:35 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Anderson

When
May 12, 3:35 PM CST
Where
Anderson County, 3 mi NE of Kincaid
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
38.117, -95.117

What these are

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

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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: 5291340.