Golfball size hail fell over a large area in and around Sidney, NE. Many cars were damaged in Sidney with widespread crop damage in Cheyenne county.
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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 episode as NWS CYS wrote it up.
Golfball size hail fell over a large area in and around Sidney, NE. Many cars were damaged in Sidney with widespread crop damage in Cheyenne county. Many crops were 100% damaged or destroyed.
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:19 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
1.75 inch hail fell 10 miles northwest of Sidney, NE
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