Hail in Kansas City on Monday, July 17, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Kansas City on Monday, July 17, 2023, between 5:47 pm and 6:50 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 5.00 inches at Garden City (Cass, MO) at 6:38 pm. NOAA radar flagged 103 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 57 rated a 100% chance of hail and 64 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Cass, MO, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Garden City 3 reports, up to 5.00 in
- Harrisonville 3 reports, up to 4.00 in
- Lake Winnebago 1 report, up to 3.00 in
- Peculiar 1 report, up to 3.00 in
- Raymore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:47 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Raymore | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 6:03 pm | 3.00 | 3 SSW Lake Winnebago | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 6:06 pm | 3.00 | 5 ENE Peculiar | Cass, MO | Hail had fallen about 20 minutes prior and was still measuring around 3 inches. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 6:24 pm | 3.00 | 2 ESE Harrisonville | Cass, MO | Photos of several 3 inch hailstone from east Harrisonville. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 6:24 pm | 4.00 | 1 ESE Harrisonville | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 6:28 pm | 2.75 | 3 ESE Harrisonville | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 6:38 pm | 5.00 | Garden City | Cass, MO | Numerous reports of softball sized hail in Garden City. Also received photo of a 5 inch hail stone measured with tape measure. (EAX) |
| 6:40 pm | 4.00 | 3 W Garden City | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 6:50 pm | 2.75 | 5 S Garden City | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
103 signatures from 5 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; 57 were rated 100% and 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTWX | 29 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 3.50 in | 11:02 am | 6:49 pm |
| KMCI | 27 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 2.25 in | 10:52 am | 6:08 pm |
| KSGF | 26 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 3.25 in | 5:21 pm | 8:23 pm |
| KEAX | 20 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 2.50 in | 11:06 am | 6:47 pm |
| KDMX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 11:00 am | 11:00 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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