Nebraska, 2001

Hail in Nebraska, April 8, 2001

April 8, 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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  • Heat and drought
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  • 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 8, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
255 PM CDT SUN APR 8 2001

QUESTIONS FOR FORECAST INCLUDE BOUNDARY PLACEMENT AND SUBSEQUENT
TSTM CHCS

18Z SFC ANALYSIS PLACED LOW PRESSURE CENTERS IN EASTERN COLORADO AND
NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING.  A WARM FRONT STRETCHED ACROSS NORTHERN
KANSAS INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHERN IOWA.  A MOISTURE AXIS
OF 60+ DPS EXTENDED NORTH INTO EASTERN KANSAS AND CENTRAL MISSOURI.
VIS SATELLITE SHOWS CU FIELD ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND
MISSOURI...AND TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN EASTERN WY.

ETA/MESOETA VERIFIED BEST WITH SFC FEATURES AND WILL FOLLOW CLOSEST
TO FOR FCST.  CONVECTION EXPECTED IN TWO AREAS NEAR THE CWA
TONIGHT.  THE FIRST AREA IS ALREADY OCCURING IN THE HIGH PLAINS
AIDED BY MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE IN CENTRAL WYOMING WHICH IS FCST BY
MODELS TO REACH DAKOTAS MON.  THE SECOND AREA IS IN THE WARM...MOIST
AIR NEAR THE WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY...AS A WEAKER WAVE LIFTS NE ALONG
BOUNDARY.  LATEST MODELS KEEP TSTMS TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF CWA
TONIGHT...AND UNLESS SAT/RADAR DEPICT A DIFFERENT TREND IN THE NEXT
HOUR...WILL KEEP FCST DRY FOR TONIGHT.

SFC BOUNDARY SHIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST PERIPHERY OR JUST SOUTH OF THE
CWA MONDAY LEAVING THE CWA IN NORTHERLY SFC FLOW.  OVERALL TEMPS
UPPER 60S NEB...TO MID 70S IN KS...BUT TEMPS COULD VARY MORE
DRAMATICALLY DEPENDING ON BOUNDARY LOCATION.

MONDAY NIGHT THE ETA/MESOETA DEPICT LIGHT PCPN AMOUNTS ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN CWA AS ANOTHER MINOR WAVE APPROACHES.  WILL INCLUDE A SLGHT
CHC OF PCPN IN SOUTHERN COUNTIES BUT CONFIDENCE ON THIS IS LOW.

WARM FRONT BEGINS TO LIFT NORTH LATE TUESDAY AS SOUTHWEST US TROF
APPROACHES.  FRONT APPROACHES SOUTHEAST CWA LATE TOWARD TUES
EVENING...WITH SFC DPS INCREASING TO NEAR 60F IN CENTRAL KS AND
CAPES INCREASING AS HIGH AS 2000 J/KG IN CENTRAL KS.  WILL PUT IN
LOW POPS IN SE COUNTIES FOR LATE AFTN TSTMS.   TSTMS CHCS WILL BE
BETTER ACROSS THE CWA TUES NIGHT/WED AS UPPER LOW LIFTS OUT...WITH
THE THREAT OF SVR WX AS WELL.

IN THE EXTENDED...MAIN CHANGE TO THE EXTENDED...OTHER THAN TO
INCLUDE SUNDAY PERIOD...WILL BE TO LOWER 0TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY AND
PLACE THEM CLOSER TO SEASONAL.

.GID...NONE.

FAY

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:35 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Thayer

When
April 8, 6:35 PM CST
Where
Thayer County, Gilead
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
40.133, -97.467

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.

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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: 5239265.