Name: Hail in Kansas, May 15, 2007
Start: 2007-05-15T00:50
End: 2007-05-15T00:50
Location: Kansas

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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 happened

The episode as NWS DDC wrote it up.

An isolated severe storm occurred after midnight.

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 Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 14, 2:47 PM CST, 10 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:47 PM CST, 10 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
347 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

.DISCUSSION...

DAYS 1-2...

A SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE
CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT. MID TO HIGH LEVEL WINDS WERE LIGHT IN THE
WARM SECTOR SO WIDESPREAD OR HIGH END SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED. ALSO THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WAS FAIRLY DILUTED IN THE
VERTICAL SO SFC BASED CAPES WERE ONLY MARGINAL TO MODERATE. A FEW
WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE HIGH BASED
STORMS THIS EVENING IN OUR W/NW COUNTIES.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT TONIGHT THOUGH
AND FAIRLY HIGH POPS WERE MAINTAINED AND EVEN RAISED IN A FEW PLACES.
THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL BE IN OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES.
PREVIOUS TEMP FCST LOOKED ON TRACK AND ONLY MINOR TWEAKS WERE
NEEDED.

THE PRECIP SHOULD END FROM NW TO SE TUE MORNING WITH SOME CLEARING IN
THE AFTERNOON.

DAYS 3-7...

WILL KEEP MOST OF THE EXTENDED ALONE AND NOT CHANGE ANYTHING...WITH
THE EXCEPTION OF POPS FOR SUNDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. BOTH
THE GFS AND ECMWF ARE ADVERTISING AN ELONGATED TROUGH COMING THROUGH
THE PLAINS AND WESTERN KANSAS ABOUT SUNDAY NIGHT...AND LASTING IN
THE AREA THROUGH TUESDAY.  THIS COULD BRING SOME WIDESPREAD
CONVECTION WITH IT.  FOR NOW...PLACED 20 POPS FOR RW-/TRW-
THEN...AND WILL HAVE TO TWEAK UP OR DOWN AS THAT TIME FRAME
APPROACHES.

ALSO...DUE TO THE ADDED POPS MENTIONED ABOVE...LOWERED MAX TEMPS A
TAD IN BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY PERIODS.

&&

.AVIATION...

SOUTHWEST WINDS AT 20G30KT WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNDOWN...THEN
SETTLE TO SOUTH AT 15G23KTS.  VFR CLOUDS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH
ABOUT 03Z...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING IN FROM THE
NORTHWEST...PRODUCING LOCAL CIGS AOB MVFR CONDITIONS.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DDC  56  71  45  71 /  60  40   0   0
GCK  56  70  46  71 /  80  20   0   0
EHA  56  71  48  71 /  50  20   0   0
LBL  56  71  48  72 /  50  30   0   0
HYS  56  70  45  72 /  80  30   0   0
P28  60  72  45  73 /  60  60   0   0

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

FN24/12

Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 4:12 AM CST, 20 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
512 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

KSZ030-031-045-046-064>066-074>081-084>090-151015-
TREGO-ELLIS-NESS-RUSH-HODGEMAN-PAWNEE-STAFFORD-STANTON-GRANT-
HASKELL-GRAY-FORD-EDWARDS-KIOWA-PRATT-MORTON-STEVENS-SEWARD-MEADE-
CLARK-COMANCHE-BARBER-
512 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE MAIN HAZARD FROM THESE
STORMS WILL BE SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND PERIODS OF
VERY HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO
AVERAGE BETWEEN ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH. A FEW
LOCATIONS NEAR INTERSTATE 70 MAY SEE IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH WHICH
MAY CAUSE SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

KSZ043-044-061>063-151015-
SCOTT-LANE-HAMILTON-KEARNY-FINNEY-
512 AM CDT MON MAY 14 2007 /412 AM MDT MON MAY 14 2007/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
NEAR A COLD FRONT WHICH WILL EXTEND ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN HAZARD FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER THE AREA EARLY
TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. THE MAIN
HAZARD FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OVERNIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE BETWEEN ONE HALF TO THREE
QUARTERS OF AN INCH. LOCAL ACCUMULATIONS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH
WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WHICH MAY CAUSE SOME PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/DDC

BURGERT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 7:35 PM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
835 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

KSZ061-062-150215-
HAMILTON-KEARNY-
835 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HAMILTON AND WESTERN
KEARNY COUNTIES...

AT 732 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR KENDALL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3789 10163 3782 10163 3783 10139 3796 10141

BIELINSKI

Local storm report, May 14, 7:36 PM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
836 PM CDT MON MAY 14 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0825 PM     HAIL             8 SE SYRACUSE           37.90N 101.65W
05/14/2007  E0.75 INCH       HAMILTON           KS   PUBLIC

&&

LACY

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:49 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Stafford

When: May 15, 12:50 AM CST
Where: Stafford County, 4.19 mi N of Hudson
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: COOP Observer
Coordinates: 38.160, -98.660

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

More

Every storm in Kansas in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in Kansas, May 2007

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: 37536.