Hail, Rock
- When
- July 24, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Rock County, 6 mi ENE of Bassett
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.620, -99.400
Hail in Nebraska, July 24, 1997
7 hail, 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
- $2,000
- 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.
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:37 UTC.
Event by event
7 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Custer
- When
- July 24, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County, 25 mi WSW of Oconto
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.020, -100.230
Hail, Keya Paha
- When
- July 24, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Keya Paha County, 22 mi ESE of Springview
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.700, -99.330
Hail, Holt
- When
- July 24, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Holt County, 7 mi SW of Atkinson
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 42.470, -99.070
Thunderstorm winds blew 6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
Hail, Boyd
- When
- July 24, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- Boyd County, 6 mi WSW of Naper
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.930, -99.200
Hail, Holt
- When
- July 24, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Holt County, 21 mi SW of Atkinson
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.320, -99.250
Thunderstorm winds blew 6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
Hail, Holt
- When
- July 24, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Holt County, 12 mi S of Stuart
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.430, -99.130
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
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 24, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in New Jersey, July 24 to 25, 1997
- Tornadoes in Virginia, July 24, 1997
- Flood in Alaska, July 24 to 31, 1997
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 24, 1997
- Damaging Wind and Waterspout in North Carolina, July 24, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 24, 1997
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in South Dakota, July 24 to 25, 1997
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 24, 1997
- Heavy Rain in New York, July 24 to 25, 1997
- High Wind in North Carolina, July 24, 1997
- Flood in Iowa, July 24, 1997
More
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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: 5609614, 5609613, 5609615, 5609616, 5609618, 5609617, 5609619.