Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 9, 2003

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 9, 2003
Start: 2003-06-09T20:20
End: 2003-06-09T22:25
Location: Kansas

June 9, 2003 · NWS GID · 3 events in 1 county or zone

Severe thunderstorms moving into north-central Kansas provided more "bark than bite" to the region during the late evening hours. Though the storms did produce some wind and hail in southwest Rooks county, the most severe weather was unleashed just to the west of Rooks county.

Where it happened

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Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: $125,000
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 happened

The episode as NWS GID wrote it up.

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 Jun 9, 1:24 PM CST, 6 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:24 PM CST, 6 hours 56 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
224 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

TSTMS TONIGHT AND INTERMITTENT CHCS THRU THE WEEK ARE THE MAIN CONCERNS

18Z SFC ANALYSIS PLACED SFC LOW IN THE NEB PANHANDLE...WITH SFC
TROF/DRYLINE EXTENDING SOUTH THRU SW NEB INTO FAR WESTERN KS.  SFC
MOISTURE AXIS OF LOW/MID 60S EXTENDED NORTH THRU OKLAHOMA THRU OUR
CWA.  SFC WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED ON THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE
CWA AND EXTENDED SOUTHEAST TOWARD OMAHA.  SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A
FEW CU HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN CWA LAST COUPLE OF HOURS WITH JUST
SOME ISOLATED -SHRA ATTM.  18Z SOUNDING FROM LBF INDICATES WARM H7
TEMPS NEAR 11C AND LAPS DATA ALSO INDICATES STRONGER CAP ACROSS
WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST ZONES.

EXPECT INITIAL TSTM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS NORTHERN CWA THIS AFTN IN
VCNTY OF WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THEN MORE WIDESPREAD TSTM
DEVELOPMENT AFT 00Z THIS EVENING AS COOL FRONT APPROACHES AND
CROSSES CWA ROUGHLY BTWN 03-12Z.  LAPS DATA INDICATES A QUITE
UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WITH SFC BASED CAPES 2500-3500J/KG ATTM ALTHOUGH
AFOREMENTIONED CAP STILL STRONG IN SOUTH AND WEST.  SUPERCELL
DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES EARLY THIS EVENING THEN
LINEAR CONVECTION ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY TONIGHT.  EXPECT TSTMS MORE
WIDESPREAD TONIGHT WITH FROPA AND INCREASING LLVL JET.

TSTM TO END BY 12Z AS FRONT EXITS THE CWA...AND BOTH SFC AND H85
FRONT EXIT CWA TUESDAY SO ANY ADDITIONAL CONVECTION ALONG BOUNDARY
SHLD BE SOUTHEAST OF CWA.

MODELS LESS IMPRESSIVE WITH CONVECTION IN UPSLOPE FLOW ACROSS THE
HIGH PLAINS TUESDAY NIGHT...WHICH MAY REACH WESTERN CWA AFT
MIDNIGHT.  HAVE MAINTAINED CHCS IN WESTERN COUNTIES ONLY.  TSTMS
CHCS REENTER FCST WED AFTN/EVE WITH APPROACH OF MID LEVEL WAVE.
PATTERN REMAINS ACTIVE THRU SAT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT CHGS MADE THURS
THRU SAT.  DRY CONDITIONS FCST SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH RIDGING AHEAD
OF WEST COAST TROF.

.GID...NONE.

FAY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:14 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-101200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
514 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM ALONG THE DRY LINE
OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS ALONG AND WEST
OF A SAINT PAUL TO GRAND ISLAND TO MINDEN TO STOCKTON KANSAS LINE
THROUGH 7 PM. EXPECT HAIL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO...WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

THE THUNDERSTORM AREA WILL SHIFT EAST AND AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF
HIGHWAY 281 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER AFTER 7 PM. THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL START TO DECREASE TOWARD MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN FROM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED OVER ALL OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THIS EVENING
AND TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:57 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : PRACTICE PRODUCT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
857 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

856 PM     LOUP CITY                 NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:01 PM CST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
901 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

855 PM     LOUP CITY                 NE   2.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:04 PM CST, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
904 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

856 PM     LOUP CITY                 NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

855 PM     LOUP CITY                 NE   2.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

845 PM     SCOTIA                    NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   GREELEY

830 PM     ORD                       NE   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/09/03   VALLEY

822 PM     1 W ARCADIA               NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

801 PM     2 E COMSTOCK              NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

740 PM     3 NE COMSTOCK             NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

730 PM     10 E COMSTOCK             NE   1.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   VALLEY

704 PM     4 W ARCADIA               NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:10 PM CST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
910 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

750 PM     10 E COMSTOCK             NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:14 PM CST, 6 minutes before

LSR GRI

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
914 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0912 PM    16 W STOCKTON             KS   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   ROOKS

0909 PM    11 W LOUP CITY            NE   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:14 PM CST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : CORRECTED FORMAT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
914 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0912 PM    16 W STOCKTON             KS   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   ROOKS

0909 PM    11 W LOUP CITY            NE   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:18 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Rooks

When: June 9, 8:20 PM CST
Where: Rooks County, 9 mi N of Damar
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Crop damage: $125,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.450, -99.583

Thunderstorm Wind, Rooks

When: June 9, 10:05 PM CST
Where: Rooks County, 5 mi S of Plainville
Measured: 56 kt (64 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.167, -99.300

Hail, Rooks

When: June 9, 10:25 PM CST
Where: Rooks County, 5 mi SW of Plainville
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 39.183, -99.367

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kansas in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Kansas, 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: 5366336, 5366337, 5366338.