Hail, Shelby
- When
- May 16, 8:53 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County, 3 mi SE of Harlan
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.617, -95.300
Hail in Iowa, May 16, 2001
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 May 16, 1:43 PM CST, 7 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 1:43 PM CST, 7 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 243 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 MAIN WEATHER CONCERNS ARE CHCS OF PRECIP AND HIGH TEMPS ON THUR. QSTNRY FNT EXTDS FM NR GCK TO CNK TO BIE AT 18Z. AOME SFC CNVGNC HAS BENN NOTED ALG THE FNT AND WL BE WHR FOCUS FOR CNVTV DVLPMT IS XPCD BY LATE AFTN INTO TNGT. AMS S OF BNDRY IS UNSTBL WITH LTST LAPS SFC CAPES ABOUT 4000 J/KG. SHEAR IS WK ALG THIS BNDRY...BUT SOME STG STMS MAY DVLP AS CAP BKS. WL PUT HIGH POPS TNGT IN SRN ZNS. FURTHER TO THE W...UPR SHRTWV TROF OVR MT IS FCST TO MOV E DURG THE NXT 24 TO 36 HRS. VIGOROUS SFC CDFNT IS FCST TO MOV ACRS AREA DURG THE NGT INTO THU MRNG. SVR THREAT DOES APPR MINIMAL WITH THIS FNT DUE TO LMTD MSTR AND INSTBY. HWVR...SOME FROTOGENETICAL FORCING IS INDCD ALG FNT AS IT COMES THROUGH ERN NEB...THERE MAY BE AN ISOLD SVR RPT. POPS WL BE LOW FOR THIS EVENT. TEMPS TMW WL BE MUCH COOLER AS FNT MOVS ACRS. SOME CLDS ARE LIKELY OVR SERN NEB FOR MOST OF THE DY...WHICH MAY KEEP SFC TEMPS DWN. WL GO WITH MID 70S FOR OFK AND OMA...WITH LWR 70S FURTHER S DUE TO CLDS. CRISP...COOL ON THUR NGT WITH LOWS INT HE 40S. ON FRI...AREA WILL BE UNDER SFC RDG AND CONTD COOL ADVCTN...SO WILL GO WITH HIGHS PREDOMINATELY IN THE LWR 70S. IN THE EXTDD...WL LEAN MORE TO AVN MDL SOLN WITH NXT CHC OF PRECIP ON SAT. SMITH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:45 PM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-171100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 445 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. A WARM FRONT OVER SOUTHERN NEBRASKA IS SLOWLY LIFTING NORTH. THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE TO THE SOUTH OF THIS FRONT OVER NORTHERN KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO FORM ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. UPPER LEVEL WIND FIELDS ARE RATHER WEAK AND LOW LEVEL INFLOW IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN WEAK OVERNIGHT...SO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN RATHER DISORGANIZED. NEVERTHELESS...THE DEGREE ON INSTABILITY SUGGESTS THAT A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING ISOLATED REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA FROM THE WEST OR NORTHWEST LATE THIS EVENING...AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH IS MOVING THROUGH THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THIREATS BEING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. SKERRITT
Local storm report, May 16, 6:28 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
728 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 PM 3 NE TOBIAS NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 SALINE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0515 PM TOBIAS NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 SALINE REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0527 PM 2 E TOBIAS NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 SALINE REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0549 PM 1 W WESTERN NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 SALINE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0550 PM 2 W DAYKIN NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0555 PM DAYKIN NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0615 PM 11 N FAIRBURY NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 JEFFERSON EVENT DURATION 15
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.
0635 PM 7 SSW SWANTON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0707 PM 3 S PLYMOUTH NE 3 .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:51 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
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Ohio, May 16, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 16, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Montana, May 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 16, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 2001
- Hail in Indiana, May 16, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 16, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, May 16, 2001
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 16, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, May 16 to 17, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, May 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, May 2001
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: 5245595.