Hail, Kit Carson
- When
- June 12, 6:55 PM MST
- Where
- Kit Carson County, 12 mi E of Burlington
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.300, -102.050
Hail in Colorado, June 12, 2003
3 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
- 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 11:45 AM MST, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 11:45 AM MST, 7 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1245 PM MDT THU JUN 12 2003 TONIGHT...LOW/MID LEVEL THETA-E RIDGE AXIS EXTENDS NORTH-SOUTH ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS. LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE AND VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SUGGEST PRIMARY THUNDERSTORM FORMATION NEAR THE ROCKIES WITH A SLOW EAST OR SOUTHEAST PROGRESSION. BOTH THE ETA/GFS SUGGEST ANOTHER MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX DEVELOPING THIS EVENING ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND PROPAGATING SOUTHEASTWARD ALONG THE INSTABILITY AXIS. BASED ON THE CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS AND MOST LIKELY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT/PROPAGATION WILL GO WITH THE GREATEST RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE WESTERN/SOUTHERN ZONES. FRIDAY...WITH LEFTOVER BOUNDARIES...ADEQUATE MOISTURE AND ETA SUGGESTING THE REMNANTS OF A CONVECTIVE SYSTEM ACROSS THE REGION...WILL BROADBRUSH CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT HEATING AND POTENTIAL INSTABILITY. FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY...WITH PASSAGE OF UPPER TROUGH/POSSIBLE CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WILL HOLD ONTO THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FRIDAY EVENING. WILL KEEP SATURDAY DRY IN THE WAKE OF THE TROUGH AND IN CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER WHICH WILL LIMIT INSTABILITY. SUNDAY...UPPER RIDGING BEGINS TO DOMINATE. GFS PORTRAYS THE UPPER TROUGH/CONVECTIVE COMPLEX SOUTH OF OUR ZONES...SO WILL KEEP THIS DAY DRY. MONDAY-THURSDAY...BROAD UPPER RIDGING DOMINATES. BASED ON CLIMATOLOGY CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATED-WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...WITH LIMITED MOISTURE AND FOCUSING BOUNDARIES...BELIEVE CHANCES WILL BE TOO MINIMAL TO INCLUDE IN THE FORECAST. GFS GUIDANCE HIGHS LOOK TOO COLD. .GLD...NONE. SR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 9:23 AM MST, 9 hours 32 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-131100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1023 AM MDT THU JUN 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE TRI STATE REGION. AMPLE MOISTURE WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF EASTERN COLORADO. AFTERNOON HEATING ALONG WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL WORK ON THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO DEVELOP THUNDERSTORMS. INITIALLY THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF COLORADO BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THEN THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD INTO WESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE TRI STATE REGION. THESE STORMS WILL FIRST DEVELOP OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF COLORADO AND THEN MOVE EASTWARD. ON SATURDAY...ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ONLY IN EASTERN COLORADO IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN. THESE STORMS SHOULD DISSIPATE BEFORE REACHING WESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LAMMERS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:20 PM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
620 PM MDT THU JUN 12 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0618 PM 9 NE EDSON KS 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jun 12, 5:57 PM MST, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
657 PM MDT THU JUN 12 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0649 PM 10 S GOODLAND KS .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/03 SHERMAN REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:56 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kit Carson
- When
- June 12, 7:44 PM MST
- Where
- Kit Carson County, 10 mi E of Burlington
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 39.300, -102.083
Hail, Kit Carson
- When
- June 12, 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Kit Carson County, 12 mi E of Burlington
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.300, -102.050
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 Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, June 12, 2003
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 12, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2003
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, June 2003
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: 5360076, 5360077, 5360078.