Strong Wind, Adams
- When
- April 29, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County, Hastings
- Property damage
- $40,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.525, -98.501 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Strong Wind in Nebraska, April 29, 2001
A steady south wind of 30 to 45 mph was to blame for damage to a new bank being constructed in Hastings. Workers had spent the previous week setting the roof trusses for the building, only to have mother nature knock the trusses down.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $40,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS GID wrote it up.
A steady south wind of 30 to 45 mph was to blame for damage to a new bank being constructed in Hastings. Workers had spent the previous week setting the roof trusses for the building, only to have mother nature knock the trusses down. The bank manager estimated 70 percent of the trusses were lost. It wasn't until 3 weeks later that the roof was finally on the bank.
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 29, 11:50 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 11:50 AM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1250 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2001 MAIN CONCERN IS THUNDER CHANCES TONIGHT. IT APPEARS THAT IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO CONTINUE THE WIND ADVISORY INTO TO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. BY AROUND SUNSET...WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE TO DROP BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. UPPER AIR HAND ANALYSIS FROM THIS MORNINGS RUN SHOWED A LOW PRESSURE TROF OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. 500MB HEIGHT FALLS AROUND 10 DAM ACCOMPANIED A JET MAX GREATER THAN 45KTS IN THE SAME LOCATION. WAS ABLE TO PICK OUT A FEW OBVIOUS SHORT WAVES IN THE FLOW TOO. ONE WAS LOCATED OVER WRN NEBR/SW DAKOTAS. ANOTHER WAS JUST A BIT SOUTH MAINLY OVER THE OKLA PANHANDLE. A THIRD WAS LOCATED OVER GREAT SALT LAKE. THIS CORRESPONDS PRETTY WELL WITH WV SATL PIX AND NETWORK PROFILERS FROM 12Z THIS MORNING. SHIFTING TO THE LOWERS LEVELS... THE 850MB HAND ANALYSIS WAS CONSIDERABLY DRY SOUTHWARD INTO TEXAS. THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SOUNDING FOUND WHEN LOOKING FOR LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WAS WAY SOUTH AT STATIONS KMAF AND KCRP. BUT SURFACE DEW POINTS THOUGH HAVE BEEN INCREASING OVER THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF THE CWA. HIGHER DEW POINTS ARE BEING TRANSFERRED NORTHWARD VIA STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS. IT APPEARS THOUGH THAT THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS RATHER SHALLOW...WELL BELOW 850MB. MEANWHILE A SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER ERN MT AND INTO CENTRAL WY WITH ABOUT A 10-15 DEGREE TEMP SPREAD BETWEEN THE AIR MASSES. MODELS APPEAR TO HAVE SOME DIFFERENCES WITH HOW TO HANDLE THIS APPROACHING SURFACE COLD FRONT. THE ETA AND NGM MAINTAIN SOUTHERLY FLOW THROUGH TONIGHT AND HANG THE FRONT UP JUST TO THE NW WITHIN LBFS CWA. THE AVN ON THE OTHER HAND SHOVES THE FRONT THROUGH THE CWA BUT ABRUPTLY GOES BACK TO SOUTHERLY FLOW BY LATE MONDAY NIGHT. WILL TRUST THE ETA/NGM SOLUTION TO THE BOUNDARY POSITION TONIGHT AND EVENTUALLY GETTING WASHED OUT. ALSO...AM CONCERNED THAT MOISTURE WILL BE RATHER SPARSE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. SO WILL BACK OFF ON POPS A BIT WITH HIGHER POPS OVER NW SECTIONS OF THE CWA NEAR HUNG UP BOUNDARY. AT THIS POINT WILL LEAVE KS CWA DRY FOR TONIGHT. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR PCPN COMES TUESDAY NIGHT AS THE ETA TRIES TO JAM ANOTHER COLD FRONT THROUGH THE CWA LATE. CONVERGENT LOW LEVEL THETA- E AND STEEPENING LAPSE RATES AT LEAST WARRANT SMALL POPS AT HAT TIME. NO MAJOR CHANGES PLANNED FOR THE EXTENDED PERIODS. f.GID...WIND ADVISORY ENTIRE CWFA THROUGH 6 PM. DEE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 9:50 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-292100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1050 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT... WILL PROGRESS THROUGH THE WESTERN PLAINS TODAY. AS TEMPERATURES WARM TO NEAR 80...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME SUFFICIENTLY UNSTABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. INITIALLY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM IN THE SANDHILLS NORTH AND WEST OF BROKEN BOW...WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE. AFTER 10 PM...SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO AREAS GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...KEARNEY AND SAINT PAUL. AGAIN...A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY STILL BE SEVERE...WITH STRONG WIND AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WEAKEN THEREAFTER...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT FROM KEARNEY EAST. GURNEY
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Strong Wind
- Non-thunderstorm winds below high wind criteria that nonetheless caused damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, April 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 29, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, April 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 29, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, April 29 to 30, 2001
- High Wind in Minnesota, April 29, 2001
- Hail in Alabama, April 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 29, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, April 29 to 30, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, April 29, 2001
- Hail in Alabama, April 29, 2001
More
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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: 5239299.