Hail, Jewell
- When
- July 16, 6:07 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, 4 mi N of Mankato
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.833, -98.217
Hail in Kansas, July 16, 2003
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 Jul 16, 2:06 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:06 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 306 PM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 CHANCES FOR PRECIP TONIGHT...TOMORROW NIGHT AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY AND THEN TEMPS ARE CONCERNS FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE. WEAK WAVES COMING OVER RIDGE WILL BRING CHANCES FOR PRECIP THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FIRST WILL BE TONIGHT. EXPECT A FEW STORM TO DEVELOP TO THE NORTH...THEN MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST. BEST CHANCES WILL BE IN THE NORTH AND EASTERN SECTIONS. OTHERWISE TONIGHT WILL BE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY. MODELS SOMEWHAT HAVING HARD TIME PICKING OUT WHERE SURFACE LOW/BOUNDARY TO SET UP. EXPECT IT TO SET UP IN THE AREA TOMORROW BUT WITH GOOD CAPPING IN PLACE...CHANCES FOR STORMS WILL HOLD OFF UNTIL EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. ANOTHER HOT DAY EXPECTED THURSDAY WITH TEMPS IN THE UPPER 90S TO 103. UPPER RIDGE HOLDS TIGHT UNTIL NEXT SIGNIFICANT WAVE MOVES INTO CENTRAL CANADA DURING THE WEEKEND. THIS ALLOWS RIDGE TO SLIDE BACK TO THE WEST AND THE WAVE WILL HEAD SOUTHEAST. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER SMALL CHANCE FOR STORMS TO THE AREA ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. WITH UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA TEMPS TO REMAIN WARM TO HOT. SOME COOLING IN THE NORTHEASTERN ZONES AS SURFACE BOUNDARY SETS UP. BUT TEMPS TO STILL BE IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S IN THAT AREA. WITH READINGS FROM 95 TO 100 CONTINUING TO THE SOUTH. DRY CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL FOR THE START OF THE WEEK. .GID...NONE. KISNER
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 10:07 AM CST, 8 hours before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-171200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1107 AM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SLIGHT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THIS EVENING MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80... AND OVERNIGHT EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST ACROSS NEBRASKA WILL CAUSE THE STORMS TO DEVELOP. THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST...AND A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ALTHOUGH AN OVERALL HOT AND DRY PATTERN CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEK... INTERMITTENT SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE. THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BECOME MORE ACTIVE OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE SHIFTS TO THE WEST. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM THE HEAT...AND SLIGHTLY INCREASED CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG OR SEVERE THIS WEEKEND...ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DRY WEATHER IS FORECAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. FAY
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:07 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
- Wildfire in California, July 16 to 24, 2003
- Wildfire in Montana, July 16 to 27, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 16, 2003
- Wildfire in Washington, July 16, 2003
- Flood in Alaska, July 16 to 17, 2003
- Tropical Storm in Texas, July 16, 2003
- Tropical Storm in Texas, July 16, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 16, 2003
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Texas, July 16 to 17, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 16, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, July 16, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 16, 2003
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 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: 5379171.