Hail, Lincoln
- When
- May 30, 4:42 AM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 7 mi S of Lincoln
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.933, -98.150
Hail in Kansas, May 30, 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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 3:29 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:29 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 429 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2002 MAIN CONCERN FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING WILL BE THE DENSE FOG POTENTIAL. IT APPEARS LIKE ANOTHER GOOD RADIATIONAL NIGHT FOR FOG FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT IS SHOULD BE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH TO WARRANT A DENSE FOG ADVISORY. WE ARE ONLY GOING TO INCLUDE MAINLY THE FOUR COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AT THIS TIME. THIS SHOULD MESH WELL WITH SGF. KS...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 1000 AM CDT THURSDAY FOR ZONES KSZ095>096...KSZ099>100. COX
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:43 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
- Flash Flood and Flood in Florida, May 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Texas, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, May 30, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, May 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 30 to 31, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Florida, May 30, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, May 30, 2002
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, May 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: 5287800.