Hail, Scotts Bluff
- When
- June 16, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Scotts Bluff County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.920, -103.680
Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 16, 1978
3 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
3 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Dawes
- When
- June 16, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dawes County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.780, -103.080
Hail, Cherry
- When
- June 16, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.920, -101.700
Tornado, Cherry
- When
- June 16, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.700, -100.550
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 16, 1978
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 16, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 16, 1978
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 16, 1978
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 16, 1978
- Hail in Wyoming, June 16, 1978
- Hail in North Dakota, June 16, 1978
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1978Every state in 1978This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1978
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: 10065110, 10065111, 10065112, 10065113.