Hail — Ness, Kansas

2022-05-14 · near Osgood, Ness, Kansas

Event narrative

The hail was mostly nickel sized.

Wider weather episode

Marginal boundary layer moisture along combined with sufficient daytime warming was enough to generate mainly high based thunderstorms. Ample shear of over 30 kts and CAPE values over 1000 J/kg contributed to a number of nickel to quarter sized hail reports.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1032858. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.