Hail in Nebraska, April 21, 2001

Name: Hail in Nebraska, April 21, 2001
Start: 2001-04-21T20:47
End: 2001-04-21T20:47
Location: Nebraska

April 21, 2001 · NWS GID · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 21, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 52 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
255 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

PRIMARY CHALLENGES WITH THIS PACKAGE ARE DEVELOPMENT OF
PRECIPITATION TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...AND COLD INTRUSION IN WAKE OF
UPPER SYSTEM SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY.

STAGE APPEARS SET FOR MAJOR OUTBREAK OF SEVERE WEATHER ALONG
SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS KANSAS THIS EVENING.  SATELLITE PLACES UPPER
LOW OVER ARIZONA WITH MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT SENDING IT
TO SOUTHEAST COLORADO SUNDAY MORNING.  LESS SIDE SURFACE LOW AND
INCREASING LOW LEVEL WINDS SHOULD PUSH FRONT NORTH
TO NEAR THE KS/NE LINE BY DAWN. H85 JET, DYNAMIC LIFT
AHEAD OF UPPER LOW, CONVERGENCE ALONG FRONT AND ISENTROPIC LIFT
SHOULD YIELD WIDESPREAD CONVECTION ACROSS GID CWFA LATE TONIGHT
THROUGH MUCH OF SUNDAY.  HIGH MOS POPS LOOK APPROPRIATE.

EXIT OF UPPER SYSTEM LEAVES GID CWFA IN STRONG COLD ADVECTION IN ITS
WAKE BY SUNDAY NIGHT.  PREFER ETA/MESOETA SOLUTION ON STRENGTH OF
COLD AIR.  NGM AND AVN HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN TOO WEAK WITH
SIMILAR COLD AIR OUTBREAKS.  WILL SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERCUT MOS
TEMPERATURES SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. PRECIPITATION IN DEFORMATION
ZONE WEST OF UPPER SYSTEM EXPECTED TO EXIT BY MONDAY MORNING WITH
ETA AGAIN THE PREFERRED MODEL.  COLD ADVECTION LIKELY TO HOLD
CLOUDS WELL INTO MONDAY.

BENIGN PATTERN WITH UPPER RIDGING TO SET IN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE
COMING WEEK PER MRF.

.GID...NONE

SCHURR

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 21, 3:27 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-220200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
427 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS A POSSIBILITY LATE THIS EVENING AND
OVERNIGHT...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...AND IN AREAS TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN SOUTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

A WARM FRONT WILL SLOWLY LIFT NORTHWARD THROUGH KANSAS THIS EVENING.
AS THIS FRONT PRESSES TO THE NORTH...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AFTER 9 PM...AND IN FAR SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA AFTER MIDNIGHT.

BESIDES INCREASING INSTABILITY AS THE FRONT APPROACHES...A LARGE
AMOUNT OF WIND SHEAR IS EXPECTED IN THE LOW AND MID LEVELS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE...WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS RESULTING IN LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND EVEN ISOLATED TORNADOES. FURTHERMORE...
THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL INTO SUNDAY.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND FAR
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS SITUATION FOR
POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. IN ADDITION...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS AGAIN POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY...UNTIL THE UPPER
LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA EARLY SUNDAY
EVENING.

GUYER

Local storm report, Apr 21, 4:20 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
520 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

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

0810 PM    GUIDE ROCK                NE    WIND DAMAGE
04/20/01   WEBSTER                         TREE BLOWN OVER

0815 PM    JEWELL                    KS    WIND DAMAGE
04/20/01   JEWELL                          SEVERAL ROOFS
                                           BLOWN OFF AND
                                           NUMBEROUS TREES
                                           BLOWN DOWN

Local storm report, Apr 21, 8:24 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
924 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

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

0920 PM    5 W PHILLIPSBURG          KS    1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/01   PHILLIPS                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                           REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
                                           OFFICE.

GUYER/GURNEY
@RUKWBCeKDENWWUS53 KGID 220225
SVSGRI
KSZ005-220245-

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
924 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PEOPLE IN
PHILLIPS COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM CDT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF
PHILLIPSBURG AT AROUND 920 PM.

PEOPLE IN PHILLIPS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

AT 920 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

  LONG ISLAND AT 930 PM CDT...
  WOODRUFF AT 935 PM CDT...

&

LAT...LON 3956 9961 3957 9908 4000 9907 4000 9963

NNNN

Local storm report, Apr 21, 8:37 PM CST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
937 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
%
0920 PM    2 NW PHILLIPSBURG         KS    1 INCH HAIL
04/21/01   PHILLIPS                        QUARTER SIZE REPORTED
                                           BY SPOTTER

GUYER

Local storm report, Apr 21, 8:47 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
947 PM CDT SAT APR 21 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
l
0930 PM    3 N PHILLIPSBURG          KS    1.25 INCH HAIL
04/21/01   PHILLIPS                        REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER

GUYER/GURNEY

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Harlan

When: April 21, 8:47 PM CST
Where: Harlan County, Alma
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.100, -99.350

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 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, April 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: 5239289.