Hail in Nebraska, August 14, 1997

Name: Hail in Nebraska, August 14, 1997
Start: 1997-08-14T19:20
End: 1997-08-14T20:05
Location: Nebraska

August 14, 1997 · NWS OAX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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.

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Cedar

When: August 14, 7:20 PM CST to 8:05 PM CST
Where: Cedar County, 6 mi SW of Hartington
Measured: 2.75 in hail
Crop damage: $3.0 million
Coordinates: 42.550, -97.350

A hailstorm moved across the central and southern portions of Cedar county causing significant damage or destruction to crops. It was estimated that there was 1.5 million dollars damage to the corn crop and 1.5 million dollars damage to the soybean crop. The most significant damage was confined to an area six miles wide and 14 miles long affecting 65,280 acres of farm land west and southwest of Hartington. Other significant crop damage occurred in the Coleridge area and to the north of Randolph.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5615039.