Hail in Iowa, September 22, 2001

Name: Hail in Iowa, September 22, 2001
Start: 2001-09-22T21:00
End: 2001-09-22T21:00
Location: Iowa

September 22, 2001 · 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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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Sep 22, 1:40 PM CST, 7 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 1:40 PM CST, 7 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
240 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

FCST CONCERNS EVENING CONVECTION AND UPCOMING SIGNIFICANT COOL DOWN.

SHORT TERM...VIGOROUS SHRTWV CONTINUES ON TRACK SEWD OUT OF ND PER
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. 18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS MAIN LO PRES CENTER OVR
ABR AND ANOTHER AROUND GLD WITH PREFRONTAL TROUGH ALONG THAT LINE.
PRIMARY CDFNT BACK INTO CNTRL SD AND WRN NEB. DAYTIME HEATING HAS
BEEN INHIBITED SO FAR TODAY DUE TO MID LVL CLOUDS.  THETA-E RIDGE
CONTINUES TO MOVE EWD ALONG WITH 25-30KT LOW LVL JET INTO IA.  MID
LEVEL LAPSE RATES APPROACH 7.5-8.5 DEG C/KM ACROSS SERN NEB.
INCREASING CAPES TO 2000-2500 J/KG AND MODERATE SHEAR OF 50 KTS FM
SERN NEB TO SWRN IA HAVE AREA UNDER SLIGHT RISK THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT AS PRE FRONTAL TROUGH EARLY AND CDFNT LATER MOVE THRU. SEE
SWODY1 FOR DETAILS.

FNT AND THUNDERSTORMS TO EXIT SERN NEB NEAR OR SHORTLY AFTER 06Z AS
GREATEST INSTABILITY MOVES INTO KANSAS AND MISSOURI. KEPT TEMPS
TONIGHT BELOW FWC AND CLOSER TO MAV.
I
FCST SOUNDINGS INDICATE GOOD H85 MOISTURE TO LINGER INTO SUN MORNING
FOR CU/SC DECK.  STRONG SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THIS SYSTEM SO FROM SUN
AFTN ON LOOKS LIKE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES.   FWC AND MAV IN GOOD
AGREEMENT ON SUN NIGHT. H85 TEMPS DROP TO 2C AS 850 RIDGE MOVS EWD.
PATCHY FROST NORTH MENTIONED...DEPENDING HEAVILY ON HOW LIGHT THE
WINDS GO. TEMPS ON MON SIMILAR TO SUN.

IN THE EXTENDED...DRY CONDITIONS ON TAP AS STRONG RIDGE BUILDS IN.
TEMPS REMAIN UNIVERSAL THROUGHOUT PERIOD.

.OMA...NONE.
GRIFFIS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 22, 4:58 PM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045
-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-230500-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
558 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING OVER PARTS OF EASTERN
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

WARM...MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR EXISTS OVER PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA
AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.  A FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM SIOUX CITY
SOUTHWEST TO NORFOLK AND TO KEARNEY.  MOISTURE CONVERGING ALONG THIS
BOUNDARY SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP TONIGHT.
FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR INDICATES SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH
THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL.   THE MAIN AREA WHERE ACTIVITY
MAY OCCUR IS SOUTH OF A TEKAMAH TO COLUMBUS LINE.

SMITH

Local storm report, Sep 22, 7:47 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
837 AM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0815 AM    5 S UTICA                 NE   .88 INCH HAIL
09/22/01   SEWARD                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Sep 22, 8:10 PM CST, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1058 AM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0852 AM    LINCOLN                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
09/22/01   LANCASTER                      REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0855 AM    3 N PLEASANT DALE         NE   .75 INCH HAIL
09/22/01   SEWARD                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0855 AM    LINCOLN                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
09/22/01   LANCASTER                      REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0900 AM    LINCOLN                   NE   1 INCH HAIL
09/22/01   LANCASTER                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Sep 22, 8:39 PM CST, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
939 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0911 AM    4 NE BENNET               NE   .75 INCH HAIL
09/22/01   LANCASTER                      REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Special weather statement, Sep 22, 8:55 PM CST, 5 minutes before

IAZ043-055-056-NEZ015-033-034-042>045-050-051-230400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
955 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 752 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...

THURSTON...CUMING...BURT...PLATTE...COLFAX...DODGE...
WASHINGTON...BUTLER...AND SAUNDERS.

THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST
IOWA...

MONONA...HARRISON...AND SHELBY.

WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT...AND THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT HAS SHIFTED TO THE EAST.  THEREFORE...THE WATCH
HAS BEEN CANCELED.

ZAPOTOCNY

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Mills

When: September 22, 9:00 PM CST
Where: Mills County, Henderson
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.133, -95.450

Some crop damage was reported.

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

Every storm in Iowa in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Iowa, September 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: 5268594.