Hail, Banner
- When
- June 25, 12:15 PM MST to 12:19 PM MST
- Where
- Banner County, Harrisburg
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -103.750
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 25, 1997
6 hail, 2 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
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- $6.0 million
- Events
- 8
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 Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:13 UTC.
Event by event
6 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Kimball
- When
- June 25, 12:50 PM MST to 12:51 PM MST
- Where
- Kimball County, 5 mi NW of Kimball
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.280, -103.730
Brief touchdown in open country.
Hail, Kimball
- When
- June 25, 1:28 PM MST to 1:29 PM MST
- Where
- Kimball County, 1 mi S of Kimball
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- $6.0 million
- Coordinates
- 41.220, -103.670
6000 acres of crops damaged: several roads damaged.
Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- June 25, 1:30 PM MST to 1:33 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, Potter
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 41.220, -103.320
Tornado, Cheyenne
- When
- June 25, 1:30 PM MST to 1:31 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 2 mi W of Potter
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.220, -103.350
Brief touchdown in open country.
Hail, Kimball
- When
- June 25, 1:40 PM MST to 1:42 PM MST
- Where
- Kimball County, Kimball
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 41.230, -103.670
Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- June 25, 1:40 PM MST to 1:45 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, Potter
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.220, -103.320
Hail, Kimball
- When
- June 25, 1:58 PM MST to 1:59 PM MST
- Where
- Kimball County, 10 mi SE of Kimball
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -103.530
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
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 25 to 27, 1997
- Heat in Missouri, June 25, 1997
- Heat in Illinois, June 25, 1997
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, June 25, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 25, 1997
- Flood in Nebraska, June 25, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 25, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 25, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 1997
- Heat in New Jersey, June 25 to 26, 1997
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 25, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 1997
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1997Warnings in Nebraska, June 1997
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: 5608605, 5608606, 5608607, 5608610, 5608611, 5608608, 5608609, 5608341.