Hail, Racine
- When
- August 25, 7:01 PM CST
- Where
- Racine County, Kansasville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.683, -88.117
Hail in Wisconsin, August 25, 2003
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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
- 2
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 MKX wrote it up.
Up to 1.00" diameter hail fell just south of Paris (Kenosha Co.).
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 Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 25, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 1:00 PM CST, 6 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 200 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2003 FORECAST FORECAST ON SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT. THE STAGE IS SET FOR SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT AS ABUNDANT MOISTURE IS IN PLACE WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S AND PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS 1.5+ ACROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN...PLUS STRONG RADIATIONAL HEATING DRIVING CAPES TO 2000 PLUS AS CLOUDS CLEAR THIS AFTERNOON. THE ACTORS TO DRIVE THE DRAMA ARE STRONG UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE COUPLED WITH DAKOTAS COLD FRONT AND STRONG LOW/MID LEVEL WINDS IN TO PRODUCE FORWARD PROPAGATING MCS WITH DAMAGING WINDS PER SPC DISCUSSION. ANY EARLY STORMS WILL BE MAINLY LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS OUT AHEAD OF MCS. AND WITH INCREASING SHEAR...CAN NOT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO. SO WILL BOOST GRIDS TO INCLUDE MENTION OF SEVERE POTENTIAL WITH DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. .MKX...NONE. EISE
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 6:00 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before
WIZ041-042-046-047-051>072-261000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 700 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS UP TO 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AFTER 9PM...ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE COMBINATION OF A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE...AMPLE MOISTURE IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...AND A FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL WIND FLOW...WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... THE NEXT CHANCE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THURSDAY NIGHT...AS A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT...TRACK EAST FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS SYSTEM WILL SIGNAL A SHIFT TOWARD COOLER WEATHER FOR NEXT WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. WOOD
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:03 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kenosha
- When
- August 25, 7:10 PM CST to 7:16 PM CST
- Where
- Kenosha County, 2 mi S of Paris
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.617, -88.050
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
- Heat in Illinois, August 25 to 26, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 25 to 26, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 25, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 25, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 25, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 25, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 25, 2003
- Wildfire in California, August 25 to 31, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 25, 2003
- Flash Flood in California, August 25, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 25 to 26, 2003
- Damaging Wind in California, August 25, 2003
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, August 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: 5376993, 5376994.