Hail, Perkins
- When
- June 5, 9:23 PM MST
- Where
- Perkins County, 10 mi S of Paxton
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Crop damage
- $3.0 million
- Coordinates
- 40.970, -101.370
Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
WHEAT FIELDS AND CORN FIELDS ACROSS PERKINS COUNTY WERE DESTROYED BY A SERIES OF STORMS WHICH PASSED OVER THE COUNTY THE NIGHT OF JUNE 5 - JUNE 6. SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS IN CROP DAMAGE WAS DONE BY A COMBINATION OF LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $3.0 million
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
WHEAT FIELDS AND CORN FIELDS ACROSS PERKINS COUNTY WERE DESTROYED BY A SERIES OF STORMS WHICH PASSED OVER THE COUNTY THE NIGHT OF JUNE 5 - JUNE 6. SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS IN CROP DAMAGE WAS DONE BY A COMBINATION OF LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, June 1996
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: 5550076.