Hail, Custer
- When
- August 17, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County, 6 mi WNW of Callaway
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.333, -100.033
Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 17, 1:56 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:56 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 256 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001 ...THUNDERSTORM CHCS THIS EVENING WILL BE MAIN CONCERN... SFC DATA AND SATELLITE AT 19Z SHOW COLD FRONT MOVING INTO SRN SD/NRN NEBR...WHILE PRE-FRONTAL TROF BECOMING MORE W TO E ORIENTED. MSAS SHOWING BEST LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE IN THE PANHANDLE INTO SW NEBR AND IN THE E. FRONT HAS VERY LITTLE PUSH WITH IT BASED ON 3HR PRES DATA. BROAD CU FIELD DEVELOPING ALONG FRONT/BEHIND IT IN SD INDICATE NO GOOD LOW LEVEL FORCING AT THIS POINT. ISOLD TSRA DEVELOPING ALONG TROF IN WRN NEBR WHERE CIN IS NON EXISTANT ACCORDING TO LAPS. ALTHO I HATE TO BLANKET THE AREA WITH PRECIP... WILL INCLUDE ISOLD IN THE W THIS EVEN...WITH SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCES IN THE ERN MOST ZONES WHERE BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RESIDES. SB CAPES AOA 2500 J/KG IN CENTRAL NEBR...HOWEVER SOMEWHAT OF A CAP EXISTS THERE. SOME SIGNIFICANT PRECIP DIFFS BETWEEN AVN/ETA TONIGHT...WITH ETA NOT SHOWING ANY PRECIP IN THE SW TONIGHT...AND AVN HAS SOME. BASED ON WHAT IS OCCURRING...WILL SIDE WITH THE AVN ON THIS ONE...HOWEVER BOTH MODELS SHOW THE BULK OF THE PRECIP OCCURRING WHERE BETTER UPPER LEVEL FORCING WILL RESIDE. BEST UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE (NON- CONVECTIVE) WILL RESIDE OVER SRN MN ASSOCIATED WITH 70-90KT JET TO DIVE SWD IN LONG WAVE TROF. THIS SHOULD HELP TO DEEPEN FRONTAL CIRULATION IN THE EAST...AND WITH BETTER MOISTURE AVAILABLE WILL INCLUDE SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS IN THE NERN ZONES...BUT BELIEVE THAT FROPA TIMING WILL BE A TAD TOO SOON IN THE ONL AREA. IN THE SW... DECENT INSOLATION OVER THE DAY HAS ALLOWED DECENT CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...BUT MUCH DRIER AIR MOVING IN AHEAD OF MAIN FRONT WHICH WILL LIMIT TSRA/SHRA COVERAGE. AS WITH YESTERDAY...CONVECTION SHOULD FADE WITH SUNSET OUT W. SAT LOOKS LIKE A PLEASANT DAY ALL AROUND WITH LITE N WINDS AND TEMPS 75 TO 80. SAT MINS WILL ACTUALLY BE COOLEST IN THE ERN ZONES DUE TO SOMEWHAT LOWER DEW POINTS AND LATER ARRIVAL OF SERLY RETURN FLOW. SUN LOOKS DRY FOR THE MOST PART...HOWEVER AS ZONAL FLOW DEVELOPS... LEE TROF WILL AS WELL...SETTING UP LOW LEVEL CONVERGENT ZONE IN THE NRN PANHANDLE. SHORT WAVE OVER NIGHT WILL PRIMARILY PASS N OF CWA AND MAY FORM CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IN SD. HOWEVER...AHEAD OF LEE TROF... LLJ WILL DEVELOP. IF THAT DOES OCCUR...LLJ WILL DRIVE CORFIDI VECTORS TO MORE OF A SERLY DIRECTION AND COULD COME INTO NRN ZONES DURING THE NIGHT. LOW POPS INCLUDED FOR THIS REASON. FURTHER OUT...IF UPPER TROF DEVELOPS IN THE NW AS ADVERTISED IN MED RANGE MODELS...RIDGE SHOULD POP UP SOME AND DEFLECT MOST CONVECTION TO THE N...AND LEFT MID WEEK DRY. HOWEVER...MRF HAS BEEN JUMPING AROUND AND COMES INTO AGGREEMENT WITH ECMWF AND UKMET...THEN DIVERGES...SO CONFIDENCE IS LOW. INCLUDED SLT CHC FOR FRIDAY. .LBF...NONE. JWS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 10:16 AM CST, 5 hours 44 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-172045- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1116 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001 ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER ALL OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE GREATEST RISK OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF AN ONEILL TO HAYES CENTER LINE STARTING LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...BUT NONE ARE EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THIS SYSTEM ALONG WITH A DISTURBANCE ALOFT MOVING OUT OF THE DAKOTAS WILL DEVELOP THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA BY MID AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...MOISTURE WILL REMAIN LIMITED ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS AND ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. AWJ
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornado in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Rip Current in Michigan, August 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, August 17 to 20, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 17, 2001
- Tornado in Iowa, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 17, 2001
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 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: 5256839.