Hail in Kansas City on Saturday, September 23, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 34 hail reports in Kansas City on Saturday, September 23, 2023, between 8:52 am and 5:15 pm CDT, in 7 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 2.50 inches at Liberty (Clay, MO) at 12:35 pm. NOAA radar flagged 2,096 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 593 rated a 100% chance of hail and 768 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 20 places in Cass, MO, Clay, MO, Jackson, MO, Johnson, KS, Lafayette, MO, Miami, KS and Platte, MO, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Harrisonville 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Raymore 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Belton 3 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Edgerton 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Gunn City 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Liberty 2 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Missouri City 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Buckner 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Clare 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Cleveland 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Concordia 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Gardner 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Grandview 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lee's Summit 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Lenexa 1 report, up to 2.50 in
- Lewis And Clark V 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Olathe 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Peculiar 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Platte City 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Shawnee 1 report, up to 1.75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:52 am | 1.25 | 3 SSW Edgerton | Miami, KS | (EAX) |
| 9:02 am | 1.75 | 1 SSE Edgerton | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 9:13 am | 1.50 | 2 S Gardner | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 10:04 am | 1.00 | 1 SE Platte City | Platte, MO | (EAX) |
| 10:05 am | 1.00 | 2 SSE Lewis And Clark V | Platte, MO | Wind gusts to 40 mph as well. (EAX) |
| 10:43 am | 1.75 | 4 WSW Shawnee | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 10:55 am | 2.50 | 2 W Lenexa | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 12:05 pm | 1.00 | Belton | Cass, MO | Report via social media. (EAX) |
| 12:15 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Grandview | Jackson, MO | Report via social media. (EAX) |
| 12:24 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Lee's Summit | Jackson, MO | (EAX) |
| 12:35 pm | 2.50 | Liberty | Clay, MO | (EAX) |
| 12:40 pm | 1.25 | Buckner | Jackson, MO | (EAX) |
| 12:40 pm | 1.50 | 2 SE Liberty | Clay, MO | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (EAX) |
| 12:47 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW Harrisonville | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 12:50 pm | 1.50 | 1 NW Missouri City | Clay, MO | (EAX) |
| 1:04 pm | 1.75 | 1 E Harrisonville | Cass, MO | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (EAX) |
| 1:07 pm | 1.50 | 2 WNW Gunn City | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 1:15 pm | 1.75 | 2 E Gunn City | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 1:25 pm | 1.75 | 2 WNW Missouri City | Clay, MO | Mainly quarter to half dollar size hail but a few golf ball size hail reported. (EAX) |
| 3:08 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Concordia | Lafayette, MO | Quarter size hail reported at the TA Travel Center. (EAX) |
| 4:12 pm | 2.00 | 3 ESE Clare | Johnson, KS | Received from social media with 2 inch hail. (EAX) |
| 4:15 pm | 1.75 | 5 SE Olathe | Johnson, KS | Report via social media. (EAX) |
| 4:25 pm | 1.00 | 5 SSW Belton | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 4:35 pm | 2.00 | Peculiar | Cass, MO | report via social media. (EAX) |
| 4:36 pm | 1.00 | Raymore | Cass, MO | Public reported varying size hail from dime to quarter size hail. Located near Lowes in Raymore. (EAX) |
| 4:36 pm | 1.25 | 2 W Raymore | Cass, MO | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX) |
| 4:40 pm | 1.00 | Raymore | Cass, MO | Trained spotter reported mostly dime size hail with quarter size hail southwest of Raymore. (EAX) |
| 4:40 pm | 1.75 | 2 WSW Raymore | Cass, MO | Received a CoCoRaHS report of 1.75 inch hail. (EAX) |
| 4:40 pm | 1.00 | Belton | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 4:41 pm | 1.50 | 2 NNE Cleveland | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 4:45 pm | 1.00 | 1 S Raymore | Cass, MO | (EAX) |
| 5:10 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Harrisonville | Cass, MO | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:14 pm | 1.25 | 1 E Harrisonville | Cass, MO | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:15 pm | 1.00 | 2 WNW Harrisonville | Cass, MO | Trained spotter reported. (EAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
2,096 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; 593 were rated 100% and 155 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 | 651 | 130 | 179 | 15 | 3.00 in | 8:43 am | 5:43 pm |
| KTWX | 626 | 210 | 244 | 59 | 4.00 in | 8:43 am | 8:46 pm |
| KEAX | 471 | 104 | 181 | 39 | 3.50 in | 8:45 am | 8:40 pm |
| KSGF | 347 | 148 | 164 | 42 | 4.00 in | 8:48 am | 8:42 pm |
| KDMX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 4:16 pm | 4:16 pm |
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.