Hail, Box Butte
- When
- July 7, 4:55 PM MST to 4:59 PM MST
- Where
- Box Butte County, 15 mi W of Hemingford
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.320, -103.370
A storm produced quarter size hail 15 miles west of Hemmingford.
Hail in Nebraska, July 7, 1998
1 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 176 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:53 UTC.
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
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Minnesota, July 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Michigan, July 7 to 8, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 7, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 7, 1998
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 1998
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: 5661256.