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 May 16, 1:43 PM CST, 10 hours 27 minutes earlier.
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
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.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1040 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0953 PM 3 SE HARLAN IA .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 SHELBYThe Omaha radar (KOAX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:10 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph by an off-duty NWS employee downed small tree limbs.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, May 2001
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: 5245594.