Hail, Jewell
- When
- July 31, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, Randall
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.633, -98.050
Hail in Kansas, July 31, 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 31, 2:15 AM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:15 AM CST, 11 hours 15 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 315 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 NO SIG CHANGES THROUGH ENTIRE FCST. SFC FRONT CUTTING INTO CENTRAL SD FROM E...WITH PREFRONTAL CONV ZONE NEAR N CNTRL NE/S CNTRL SD BORDER. WEAK LOW PRESS ALREADY BEGINNING TO SET UP OVR NERN CO. SRN MID LVL SHORTWAVE AXIS DIRECTED DIRECTED FROM SWRN MN BACK INTO WRN NE PANHANDLE...WITH NRN AND STRONGER AXIS FROM MN INTO ERN MT. RELATIVELY WARM/MOIST LL 850 PUSH BEGINNING TO SLIDE UP INTO NERN CO SERN WY AND WRN NE PANHANDLE...AND UNDERNEATH FIRST MID WAVE. EXPECT ELEVATED AREA OF CLOUDS TO START FORMING NEXT COUPLE OF HRS...WORKING SOUTH BY FCST ISSUANCE. THIS WOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT LOW POPS OVER MUCH OF CWA THROUGH MORNING HRS...WITH MUCH BETTER...REMEMBER THIS IS ALL RELATIVE...CHANCE BY EARLY AFTERNOON PERIOD OVR NRN FA...THEN S BY EVENING. 40 KTS OF SHEAR NEAR ALONG FRONT...WITH SB CAPES RUNNING 2-3K J/KG DURING AFT PERIOD OVR NRN FA. LL SHEAR STRONGEST E OF HIGHWAY 281. POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SUPER CELLS UNDER WEAK OR MODERATE CAP PROBABLY BY MID AFTERNOON ANYWHERE N OF INTERSTATE 80. HAIL WIND LIKELY WITH ANY STORMS THAT DO GO UP...WITH ADDITIONAL CHC FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES THROUGH EARLY EVENING...PARTICULARLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 6 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. HOWEVER...POTENTIAL WILL EXIST WITH ANY OF AFTERNOON STORMS FOR A SMALL CHANCE FOR A SPIN UP. EXPECT STORMS TO LINE OUT BY EARLY EVE AND BECOME MAINLY WIND THREAT. HOWEVER...WITH NERN CO CYCLOGENESIS OCCURRING TODAY IN VIGOROUS NW FLOW...ALSO EXPECT SFC FRONT TO HANG UP A BIT...ALLOWING CONVECTION FROM ELEVATED AREAS WEST TO RIDE ALONG NICE THETA E BOUNDARY SETTING UP N OF DEVELOPING LOW...KEEPING CHCS FOR PRECIP OVR NIGHT ESP SRN HALF FA...WITH SMALL CHC FRI AM IN KS COUNTIES. BEYOND...NO CHANGE TO EXTENDED. .GID...NONE. 10
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 11:00 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1200 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL BE ENTERING CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT SHOULD BE ALONG THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER BY 7 PM. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THIS FRONT AFTER 4 PM. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER. A BETTER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LATER TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION AND WILL HELP TO FIRE STORMS ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT. THE MAIN HAZARD FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FOR FRIDAY MORNING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...THEN AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. WHILE A STORM OR TWO MAY BECOME STRONG OR SEVERE...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. KISNER
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:32 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
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 31, 2003
- Hail in Iowa, July 31, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 31, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, July 31, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, July 31, 2003
- Hail in Iowa, July 31, 2003
- Hail in Iowa, July 31, 2003
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 31, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 31, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 31, 2003
- Damaging Wind in California, July 31, 2003
- Hail in Missouri, July 31, 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: 5375313.