Hail in Nebraska, June 23, 2000

Name: Hail in Nebraska, June 23, 2000
Start: 2000-06-23T19:55
End: 2000-06-23T19:55
Location: Nebraska

June 23, 2000 · 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: $1.5 million
Crop damage: $50,000
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), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:53 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Knox

When: June 23, 7:55 PM CST
Where: Knox County, 6 mi NW of Crofton
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Property damage: $1.5 million
Crop damage: $50,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.800, -97.567

A hail storm began northwest of Crofton Nebraska and cut a half mile wide swath of damage down to Hartington in Cedar county. Hail, which at times was baseball size, was driven by 50 mph winds causing extensive damage to cars, windows, siding, roofs and crops in the area. Insurance agents stated that between 1 and 2 million dollars in damage was sustained from around Crofton through Hartington. The worst damage was reported at the junction of Highways 81 and 12, 5 miles east of Crofton. Around the junction of Higways 12 and 81 local agronomists estimated that defoliation of corn was in the 85 to 90 percent range with 35 percent of the crop dead.

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, June 2000

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: 5150485.