Hail, Jewell
- When
- June 12, 9:10 AM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, 3 mi N of Webber
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.983, -98.033
Hail in Kansas, June 12, 2004
A couple of rounds of thunderstorms rumbled over a section of north-central Kansas. Nickel size hail was reported in the Webber area during the morning.
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
- $45,000
- Crop damage
- $600,000
- Events
- 5
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.
A couple of rounds of thunderstorms rumbled over a section of north-central Kansas. Nickel size hail was reported in the Webber area during the morning. The second round of thunderstorms dropped hail to the size of golf balls during the early evening. Minor crop damage was noted.
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 12, 2:53 AM CST, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:53 AM CST, 6 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 353 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 .DISCUSSION...RETURN OF THE WARM FRONT CAN BE TRACKED ON INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGERY EARLY THIS MORNING. MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT WAS JUST MAKING ITS WAY INTO THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE FORECAST AREA AT 08Z. DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE AT KRSL JUMPED FROM 42 TO 63 IN THE LAST TWO HOURS. MOISTURE ALSO RETURNING TO MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WHERE DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES ROSE FROM THE MIDDLE 30S TO THE MIDDLE 50S. AT CURRENT RATE OF PROGRESS...A 70 DEWPOINT IN THAYER...JEWELL...AND MITCHELL COUNTIES IS LIKELY BY 12Z. ETA 06Z RUN SHOWS THE WARM FRONT BLASTING THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA...STRETCHING FROM KODX TO KLXN BY 00Z SUNDAY. ETA SURFACE DEWPOINT FIELD IS ABOUT 4 TO 8 F TOO COOL AT THE LEADING EDGE OF WARM FRONT...EXPECT DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES TO BE HIGHER THAN ETA VALUES BY 18Z IN THE EASTERN HALF OF AREA. EXPECT CAPE VALUES ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA TO BE BETWEEN 2000 AND 4000 J/KG BY 21Z. ETA GENERATES QPF BY 15Z IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...BUT FEEL IT IS STARTING TOO SOON...AS NO REAL TRIGGERS ARE SEEN IN THE OBSERVATIONS OR MODEL DATA. HELICITY VALUES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN THIRD OF THE AREA...SPC MODERATE THREAT AREA...ARE UP TO 250 BY 21Z. BELIEVE CONVECTION WILL FIRE AFTER 21Z...AS THE CAP WEAKENS AND SHORT WAVE PASSES TO THE NORTH THROUGH SOUTH DAKOTA. ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. DAY TO DAY CHANCES OF CONVECTION WILL DEPEND ON THE POSITION OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE REGION. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. && NELSON
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 3:48 AM CST, 5 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 448 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 KSZ005-017-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>062-072>074-082>084-131200- BUFFALO-DAWSON-FRANKLIN-FURNAS-GOSPER-GREELEY-HALL-HARLAN-HOWARD- KEARNEY-MERRICK-NANCE-PHELPS-PHILLIPS-POLK-ROOKS-SHERMAN-VALLEY- 448 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM YORK NEBRASKA...TO HASTINGS...TO OSBORNE KANSAS. HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...AND WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE THE MAIN THREATS OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WARM FRONT WILL PUSH NORTHWEST ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING BRINGING WARM MOIST AIR. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...BUT THE WIND SHEAR PROFILE WILL BE RATHER WEAK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FURTHER MONITORED FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB-PAGE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID KSZ006-007-018-019-NEZ063-064-075>077-085>087-131200- ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-HAMILTON-JEWELL-MITCHELL-NUCKOLLS-OSBORNE-SMITH- THAYER-WEBSTER-YORK- 448 AM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY...SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM YORK NEBRASKA...TO HASTINGS...TO OSBORNE KANSAS. ISOLATED TORNADOES...HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE...AND WINDS OVER 60 MPH ARE THE MAIN THREATS OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WARM FRONT WILL PUSH NORTHWEST ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING BRINGING WARM MOIST AIR. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...AND THE WIND SHEAR PROFILE WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FURTHER MONITORED FOR ANY SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. && FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB-PAGE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID NELSON
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:08 UTC.
Event by event
5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Jewell
- When
- June 12, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, 3 mi NW of Lovewell
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.900, -98.017
Hail, Jewell
- When
- June 12, 6:37 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, 2 mi E of Formoso
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.783, -97.967
Hail, Jewell
- When
- June 12, 7:03 PM CST
- Where
- Jewell County, Randall
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.633, -98.050
Hail, Mitchell
- When
- June 12, 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County, Scottsville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.533, -97.950
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, June 12 to 13, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, June 12, 2004
- Flooding in West Virginia, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 12, 2004
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, June 2004
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: 5410513, 5410514, 5410515, 5410516, 5410517.