Hail on Date

Hail in Kansas City on Saturday, June 8, 2024

The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Kansas City on Saturday, June 8, 2024, between 12:21 am and 1:06 am CDT, in 2 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at Peculiar (Cass, MO) at 12:39 am. NOAA radar flagged 409 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 81 rated a 100% chance of hail and 57 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

5spotter hail reports in the metro
2.00 inlargest reported, Peculiar
409radar hail signatures inside the metro, 81 rated 100%
3.25 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Kansas City counties with 409 radar hail signatures and 5 spotter hail reports on June 8, 2024 Jackson Clay Platte Cass Ray Clinton Lafayette Johnson Wyandotte Leavenworth Miami 2.00 in, Peculiar
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 2 places in Cass, MO and Johnson, KS, named as the National Weather Service described them.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
12:21 am1.502 SE StillwellJohnson, KSReport from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). Time amended based on radar. (EAX)
12:25 am1.502 SE StillwellJohnson, KSPublic report of ping pong ball size hail southeast of Stillwell. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)
12:39 am1.503 S PeculiarCass, MOCorrects previous hail report from 3 S Peculiar. Social media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)
12:39 am2.00PeculiarCass, MOApproximately two-inch hail reported in Peculiar via social media. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)
1:06 am1.503 S PeculiarCass, MOSocial media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

409 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; 81 were rated 100% and 15 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KTWX131221043.25 in12:03 am3:57 am
KMCI109131601.25 in12:01 am5:31 am
KSGF93301952.75 in12:01 am2:20 am
KEAX75151163.25 in12:02 am1:44 am
KICT11101.25 in12:33 am12:33 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.