Hail, Lancaster
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lancaster County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -96.780
Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 14, 1963
5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Lancaster
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lancaster County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -96.780
Hail, Fillmore
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -97.580
Hail, Hall
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -98.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Seward
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Seward County
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -97.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -97.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Lancaster
- When
- May 14, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lancaster County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -96.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Merrick
- When
- May 14, 9:36 PM CST
- Where
- Merrick County
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -98.280
Tornado, Fillmore
- When
- May 14, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -97.580
Hail, Fillmore
- When
- May 14, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -97.580
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10071774, 10071775, 10071776, 10071777, 10071778, 10071779, 10071780, 10071781, 10071782, 10071783.