Hail, Hall
- When
- July 18, 5:11 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.920, -98.350
Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 18, 1988
8 hail, 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
8 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Thomas
- When
- July 18, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Thomas County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.980, -100.730
Hail, Clay
- When
- July 18, 6:18 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.570, -98.220
Hail, Morrill
- When
- July 18, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Morrill County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.750, -103.230
Hail, Kimball
- When
- July 18, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Kimball County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.230, -103.920
Hail, Kimball
- When
- July 18, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kimball County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.230, -103.670
Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- July 18, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cheyenne County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.380, -102.900
Hail, Custer
- When
- July 18, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.300, -99.930
Tornado, Dawson
- When
- July 18, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -99.850
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
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- Tornado and Hail in Wyoming, July 18, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 18, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 18, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Florida, July 18, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 18, 1988
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 18, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 18, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 18, 1988
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1988Every state in 1988This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1988Warnings in Nebraska, July 1988
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: 10078719, 10078720, 10078721, 10078722, 10078723, 10078724, 10078725, 10078726, 10078727.