Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2009

Name: Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2009
Start: 2009-06-10T16:04
End: 2009-06-10T19:00
Location: Kansas

June 10, 2009 · NWS SGF · 5 events in 1 county or zone

Storms impacted portions of Cherokee County during the afternoon of 10 June. Large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding were the primary hazards with these storms.

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
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: None recorded
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 SGF wrote it up.

Storms impacted portions of Cherokee County during the afternoon of 10 June. Large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding were the primary hazards with these storms.

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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 1:22 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 1:22 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
222 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

.DISCUSSION...

MAIN FOCUS THIS FORECAST WILL BE WITH CONTINUED CONVECTIVE
PRECIPITATION CHANCES...SEVERE CHANCES THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING AND
FLOODING POTENTIAL.

PERSISTENT SUBTROPICAL UPPER PATTERN FROM THE WEST/SOUTHWEST WILL
REMAIN OVER THE AREA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG
SHORTWAVE EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS UPPER FLOW WAS LIFTING NORTHEAST
OUT OF NEW MEXICO INTO SOUTHERN COLORADO/WESTERN KANSAS AND THE
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE REGION. MEANWHILE AT THE SURFACE...A
NEARLY STATIONARY BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED FROM JUST NORTH OF JLN TO
NEAR AIZ WITHIN THE CWA. THE AREA SOUTH OF THE FRONT HAS BEEN
MOSTLY SUNNY THROUGH THE MORNING WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID
70S AND TEMPERATURES INTO THE LOW TO MID 80S. THIS HAS ALLOWED
SURFACE BASED CAPES TO CLIMB INTO THE 4500 J/KG AREA WITH LITTLE
TO NO CIN. COULD SEE CONVECTION DEVELOP WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR
TWO ALONG THE BOUNDARY HOWEVER MOST OF THE CONVECTION WILL OCCUR
LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS SHORTWAVE ENERGY BEGINS TO
MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST.

MODELS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME WITH PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS/COVERAGE
WITH THIS SYSTEM TONIGHT. PREFER THE NAM AND LOCALLY RUN WRFNMM
WHICH BRING HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION ALONG THE FRONT FROM LATE
AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. HAVE INITIALLY PEGGED THIS AREA WITH THE
HIGHEST POPS AND QPF. THIS AREA ALSO RECEIVED SOME OF THE
HEAVIEST RAIN FROM YESTERDAY/LAST NIGHTS PRECIPITATION AND HAVE
ALREADY SENT OUT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 5 PM THROUGH 7 AM THU.
GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AND SHEAR WOULD ALSO EXPECT SOME SEVERE
WEATHER THIS EVENING AS THE SHORTWAVE MOVES IN. LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ALL
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWESTERN CWA.

BOUNDARY WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA ON THURSDAY WITH
HIGHEST POPS SHIFTING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE DAY.
BOUNDARY SHOULD PUSH SOUTH OF THE AREA ON THURSDAY NIGHT...BUT
WILL LIKELY HANG UP OVER ARKANSAS. FRONT WILL BEGIN TO LIFT BACK
TO THE NORTH OVER THE WEEKEND AS UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD
NORTH. THIS WILL BRING BETTER THUNDERSTORM CHANCES BACK INTO THE
FORECAST AREA.

FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD (SAT THROUGH WED)...

WESTERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE AT THE ONSET OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD AND
WILL KEEP THREAT OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE FORECAST.  SEVERAL
SHORTWAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH FROM SATURDAY INTO MONDAY WITH A
FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINING IN THE VICINITY.  BY TUESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY...UPPER RIDGE AXIS WILL DEVELOP EASTWARD OVER THE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY REGION WHICH SHOULD KEEP THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TO
THE NORTH OF THE AREA IN ADDITION TO BRINGING WARMER TEMPERATURES TO
THE AREA.

LINDENBERG

&&

.AVIATION...

VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE MUCH OF THIS AFTERNOON BUT THUNDERSTORMS
WILL INCREASE DURING THE MID AND LATE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED TO
BROKEN CUMULUS WILL DEVELOP AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. EXPECT A
LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS TO IMPACT THE AREA LATE THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THE THIS EVENING BRINGING GUSTY WINDS AND PERIODS
OF MVFR CONDITIONS. SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

FOSTER

&&

.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY
     MORNING FOR MOZ055>058-066>071-077>081-083-088-089-093-101.

KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY
     MORNING FOR KSZ073-097-101.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 12:00 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-111800-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
100 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
   LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS.
   DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
   LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING.
   AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES.

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH 4 PM MAINLY
  FROM SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. THUNDERSTORMS WILL
  INCREASE IN COVERAGE FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA
 FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

  DISCUSSION:

 STRONG INSTABILITY AND MODERATE WIND SHEAR WILL INTERACT WITH A
 NEARLY STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE REGION TO GENERATE
 ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. WHILE
 ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS
 WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING
 AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS
 WILL BE POSSIBLE. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE
 OZARKS THIS EVENING BRINGING THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER AND
 FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

 PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY
 MONDAY AS A FRONT LIFTS BACK TO THE NORTH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

 SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON
 INTO THIS EVENING.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH
OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE)

FOSTER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 10:09 AM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1109 AM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

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

0825 PM     HAIL             8 ESE ALTON             36.65N 91.27W
06/09/2009  E1.75 INCH       OREGON             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT RIVERTON.

&&

AFOSTER

Local storm report, Jun 10, 10:49 AM CST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1149 AM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

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

0345 AM     TSTM WND GST     2 NE MARSHFIELD         37.36N 92.88W
06/10/2009  E65.00 MPH       WEBSTER            MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES DOWN AND MINOR ROOF DAMAGE JUST NORTHEAST OF
            MARSHFIELD. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED. WINDS
            ESTIMATED AT 65 MPH.

&&

BARJNBRUCH

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:22 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
122 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

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

0150 PM     TORNADO          3 NE REDFIELD           37.86N 94.84W
06/09/2009  F0               BOURBON            KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SPOTTERS TRACKED A PARTIALLY VISIBLE TORNADO THROUGH OPEN
            FIELDS. THE TORNADO UPROOTED A TREE AND DAMAGED OTHERS
            BETWEEN 145 AND 185TH STREETS.

&&

BARJNBRUCH

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:25 PM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
125 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

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

0200 PM     FLASH FLOOD      XENIA                   38.00N 94.99W
06/09/2009                   BOURBON            KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FOUR INCHES OF RAIN CAUSED STREETS TO FLOOD FIRST IN
            XENIA THEN ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE COUNTY. SOME ROADS WERE
            WASHED OUT.

&&

BARJNBRUCH

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:29 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
129 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

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

0100 AM     TSTM WND DMG     MAPLETON                38.01N 94.88W
06/10/2009                   BOURBON            KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN.

&&

BARJNBRUCH

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:51 PM CST, 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
451 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

MOZ092-096-102230-
WRIGHT MO-DOUGLAS MO-
451 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR EASTERN DOUGLAS AND SOUTHEASTERN
WRIGHT COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...

AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF AVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LINDENBERG

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:02 UTC.

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Event by event

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

Hail, Cherokee

When: June 10, 4:04 PM CST
Where: Cherokee County, 1.3 mi WSW of Sherwin
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 37.170, -94.970

Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee

When: June 10, 4:09 PM CST
Where: Cherokee County, 1.3 mi WSW of Sherwin
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 37.170, -94.970

The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director estimated wind gusts up to 70 mph.

Thunderstorm Wind, Cherokee

When: June 10, 4:18 PM CST
Where: Cherokee County, 0.55 mi W of Columbus
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 37.170, -94.840

The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph.

Hail, Cherokee

When: June 10, 4:24 PM CST
Where: Cherokee County, 3.5 mi S of Sherwin
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 37.130, -94.960

Flash Flood, Cherokee

When: June 10, 4:30 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
Where: Cherokee County, 0.74 mi NNE of Columbus to 0.35 mi NNW of Columbus
Cause: Heavy Rain
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 37.180, -94.825

Excessive rainfall flooded several streets within the community of Columbus.

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.
Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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

The same day elsewhere

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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: 179540, 179542, 179543, 179541, 179539.