1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 11, 2:45 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 345 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001 SEVERE CONVECTION IS ONGOING AND WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN THROUGH THIS EVENING. BOW ECHO WILL MOVE OUT OF SWRN IA EARLY...BUT SOME STORMS LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR A WHILE THIS MORNING. SFC PRESSURE WAS STILL FALLING LIKE A ROCK IN ERN CO AS OF 08Z. WARM FRONT TO LIFT NORTH TODAY...WHILE THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL ENERGY LIFTS OUT. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER LATER TODAY. QUITE A BIT OF VARIATION OF MAX TEMPERATURES TODAY ACROSS THE FCST AREA. SURFACE LOW MOVES TO NERN NE BY LATE AFTN...JUST AHEAD OF THE MID TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION. THERE WILL BE SOME WRAP AROUND PCPN TONIGHT...BUT MAIN EVENT AFTER ANY EVENING CONVECTION WILL BE STRONG NW WIND. WILL LIKELY BE ENOUGH FOR A WIND ADVISORY IN LATER FCSTS...POSSIBLY EVEN A HIGH WIND WARNING. PRESSURE GRADIENT DECREASES ON THURSDAY... WITH LESS ACTIVE WEATHER FOR THE BAL6ANCE OF THE WEEK. TOO BUSY RIGHT NOW FOR ANY MORE DISCUSSION. .OMA...NONE. MILLER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
335 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 AM ENDICOTT NE WIND DAMAGE
04/11/01 JEFFERSON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. ROOFS OFF OF
SOME STRUCTURES.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0150 AM 3 ESE FAIRBURY NE WIND DAMAGE
04/11/01 JEFFERSON ROOF OFF OF A HOME.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0210 AM 7 NW FAIRBURY NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/11/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0210 AM 2 N THOMPSON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/11/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0235 AM BEATRICE NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
04/11/01 GAGE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0307 AM JOHNSON NE 60-80 MPH TSTM GUST
04/11/01 NEMAHA REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0328 AM UNADILLA NE WIND DAMAGE
04/11/01 OTOE POWER OUT IN UNADILLA.The Omaha radar (KOAX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:48 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 80 mph peeled the roof off the new country club in town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5240742.