Late on this Friday afternoon and early evening, a pair of isolated, southeast-tracking severe storms with transient supercell characteristics developed along a cold front within this six-county North Central Kansas area, yielding a handful of penny to golf ball size hail reports and one marginally-severe wind report within Phillips, Osborne and Smith counties.
The first of these storms started bubbling over northeastern Phillips County around 4 p.m. CDT and eventually intensified to severe levels between Phillipsburg and Kirwin, resulting in hail up to half dollar size during the 5-6 p.m. CDT time frame. After briefly weakening as it approached northwestern Osborne County, this storm re-intensified over southwestern portions of the county between 6:30-7:30 pm. CDT, dropping quarter size stones north of Natoma before exiting the local area southward into central Kansas. The second storm to affect the local area initially breached severe limits in far south central Nebraska before entering northeastern Smith County around 6 p.m. CDT. It remained severe for a short while longer as it tracked through rural areas between the state line and Lebanon, producing penny to golf ball size hail and estimated 60 MPH winds. By 7 p.m. CDT, this storm had weakened and soon dissipated over Jewell County. These were the only two storms to affect this North Central Kansas  area on this day, and the remainder of the evening/night remained storm-free. In the mid-upper levels, the main driving force for this event was a broad shortwave trough sinking southeast across the Dakotas into eastern Nebraska over the course of the afternoon and evening. This wave was embedded within strengthening northwesterly flow aloft, with the Central Plains residing on the downstream side of a pronounced western CONUS ridge. At the surface, the aforementioned cold front extended along a line from southwest Kansas to northeast Nebraska around the time of storm development, trailing well-southward from a weak low pressure center in eastern North Dakota. Near and ahead of this boundary, modestly-unstable conditions were noted over North Central Kansas as temperatures warmed into the mid-80s F and dewpoints averaged in the upper-50s to low-60s, promoting mixed-layer CAPE up to around 1500 J/kg in the presence of deep-layer wind shear up to 35 knots.

Hail in PHILLIPS, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 16:16:00 to 03-JUN-16 16:16:00 (CST-6)
Location: PHILLIPSBURG
Magnitude: 0.88 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Hail in PHILLIPS, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 16:20:00 to 03-JUN-16 16:20:00 (CST-6)
Location: PHILLIPSBURG
Magnitude: 1.00 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Hail in PHILLIPS, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 16:25:00 to 03-JUN-16 16:30:00 (CST-6)
Location: KIRWIN
Magnitude: 1.25 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 125.00K
Reported by: Public

Hail in SMITH, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 16:56:00 to 03-JUN-16 16:56:00 (CST-6)
Location: SMITH CENTER
Magnitude: 1.00 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 125.00K
Reported by: Public

Hail was accompanied by 60 MPH wind gusts.

Hail in SMITH, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 17:22:00 to 03-JUN-16 17:22:00 (CST-6)
Location: LEBANON
Magnitude: 0.75 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Hail in SMITH, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 17:30:00 to 03-JUN-16 17:35:00 (CST-6)
Location: LEBANON
Magnitude: 1.75 
Property damage: 15.00K
Crop damage: 175.00K
Reported by: Public

Hail in OSBORNE, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 17:48:00 to 03-JUN-16 17:48:00 (CST-6)
Location: NATOMA
Magnitude: 1.00 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Thunderstorm Wind in SMITH, KANSAS
From 03-JUN-16 16:56:00 to 03-JUN-16 16:56:00 (CST-6)
Location: SMITH CENTER
Magnitude: 52.00 EG
Property damage: 25.00K
Crop damage: 125.00K
Reported by: Public

Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH accompanied quarter size hail. Tree limbs roughly 4 to 5 inches in diameter were downed.