Hail, Box Butte
- When
- June 20, 12:10 AM CST
- Where
- Box Butte County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.300, -102.880
Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 1983
4 hail, 2 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
- 7
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
4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Sioux
- When
- June 20, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County
- Measured
- 4 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.480, -103.700
Tornado, Sioux
- When
- June 20, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.200, -103.800
Hail, Box Butte
- When
- June 20, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Box Butte County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.320, -103.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Box Butte
- When
- June 20, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Box Butte County
- Coordinates
- 42.320, -103.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Garden
- When
- June 20, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Garden County
- Measured
- 69 kt (79 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.420, -102.330
Hail, Box Butte
- When
- June 20, 10:44 PM CST
- Where
- Box Butte County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.370, -103.070
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.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Florida, June 20, 1983
- Tornado and Hail in Wyoming, June 20, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 20, 1983
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 20, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 20, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 20, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 20, 1983
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1983Every state in 1983This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1983
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: 10065290, 10065291, 10065292, 10065293, 10065294, 10065295, 10065296.