Hail, Garden
- When
- August 26, 1:00 AM MST
- Where
- Garden County, Oshkosh
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.619, -102.335 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms with hail and wind damaged crops and some property.
Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, August 26, 1993
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $550,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Thurston
- When
- August 26, 9:17 PM CST
- Where
- Thurston County, Pender
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 42.158, -96.544 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Two portable hog sheds were blown away, a metal roof was blown off of a shed and shingles were blown off of a house 2.50 miles west of Pender. A small building and trees were blown down at the golf course.
Tornado, Thurston
- When
- August 26, 9:27 PM CST to 9:32 PM CST
- Where
- Thurston County, Pender
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 42.130, -96.700
A tornado touched down north of Pender where it blew down a windmill, damaged a barn and garage, destroyed a small building and uprooted trees. The tornado then moved east where it hit another farm. There it destroyed six large buildings and damaged six others. Many trees were blown down.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 26, 1993
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 26, 1993
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 26, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 26, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 26, 1993
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, August 26, 1993
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 26, 1993
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 26, 1993
- Hail in West Virginia, August 26, 1993
- Hail in Minnesota, August 26, 1993
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1993Warnings in Nebraska, August 1993
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: 10334262, 10333640, 10333641.