Hail in Kansas City on Thursday, May 27, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Kansas City on Thursday, May 27, 2021, between 5:04 pm and 5:56 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 2 SSE Basehor (Leavenworth, KS) at 5:37 pm. NOAA radar flagged 961 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 30 rated a 100% chance of hail and 66 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Clay, MO, Leavenworth, KS and Wyandotte, KS, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Basehor 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Maywood 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Fairmount 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Kearney 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Piper 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:04 pm | 1.50 | 4 SSW Kearney | Clay, MO | CALLER PHONED INTO OFFICE REPORTING LARGE HAIL WHILE DRIVING NORTH ON I-35 TOWARDS KEARNEY. (EAX) |
| 5:37 pm | 1.75 | 2 SSE Basehor | Leavenworth, KS | (EAX) |
| 5:37 pm | 1.75 | 1 S Basehor | Leavenworth, KS | REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND 65MPH WINDS IN BASEHOR. (EAX) |
| 5:50 pm | 1.00 | 1 E Piper | Wyandotte, KS | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (EAX) |
| 5:52 pm | 1.50 | 1 NNW Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | (EAX) |
| 5:52 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Fairmount | Leavenworth, KS | REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.). (EAX) |
| 5:56 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA... A PICTURE VERIFYING MEASUREMENT WAS PROVIDED. LOCATION WAS NEAR LEGENDS NEAR KC SPEEDWAY. (EAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
961 signatures from 7 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 30 were rated 100% and 7 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMCI | 287 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1.75 in | 2:48 am | 7:54 pm |
| KTWX | 255 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 3.25 in | 2:49 am | 9:09 pm |
| KEAX | 254 | 10 | 24 | 3 | 4.00 in | 2:49 am | 7:40 pm |
| KSGF | 160 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1.00 in | 3:06 am | 7:30 pm |
| KICT | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 9:07 am | 9:13 am |
| KDMX | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:33 pm | 7:38 pm |
| KOAX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 2:56 am | 2:56 am |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Kansas City when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 11 counties (the counties of Jackson, MO, Clay, MO, Platte, MO, Cass, MO, Ray, MO, Clinton, MO, Lafayette, MO, Johnson, KS, Wyandotte, KS, Leavenworth, KS and Miami, KS). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.