Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001

Name: Hail in Nebraska, August 17, 2001
Start: 2001-08-17T21:40
End: 2001-08-17T21:40
Location: Nebraska

August 17, 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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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 Aug 17, 1:15 PM CST, 8 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:15 PM CST, 8 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
215 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

PRIMARY CONCERN IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND TSTMS INTO
MID MORNING SATURDAY.  SFC ANLYS EARLY THIS AFTN SHOWED A CDFNT
DROPPING SWD FROM THE NRN PLAINS AND A TROF OF LOW PRES FROM
ERN SD INTO KS.  SHORTWAVE IN WATER VAPOR STLT IMAGERY CONTD
TO DROP SEWD ALONG A LINE FROM SERN SD TO NWRN NE.  LBF SOUNDING
FROM THIS MORNING SHOWED DECENT MOISTURE AROUND THE 850 MB
LEVEL...AND THE 850 MB THETA E AXIS SHOULD BE OVER OUR FCST AREA
LATER THIS AFTN INTO THE EVENING.  SHOWERS AND TSTMS SHOULD
INCREASE IN COVERAGE THROUGH 00Z.  THERE IS SOME SMALL RISK OF
SEVERE STORMS...WITH HAIL THE MAIN THREAT.  ANOTHER AREA OF LIFT
SHOULD MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TNGT AS STRONGER VORT MAX MOVES
SOUTH.  PREVIOUS FCST OF LOWS IN THE MID 50S NORTH TO NEAR 60
SOUTH STILL SEEMS REASONABLE.

MODELS ARE SLOWER WITH SOUTHWARD PROGRESSION OF FRONT AND VORT
MAX COMPARED TO PREVIOUS RUNS.  HELD ONTO SMALL POPS FOR SERN
PART OF FCST AREA INTO SATURDAY MORNING.  THEN SUBSIDENCE WILL
PREVAIL.  SHOULD HAVE SCT TO BKN CU/SC DEVELOP DURING THE DAY
ESPECIALLY OVER WRN IA AND FAR ERN NE...BASED ON THE 850 MB RH
PROGS.  DECENT MIXING SHOULD HELP OFFSET THE CAA...SO HIGHS IN
THE MID 70S TO LOWER 80S ARE EXPECTED.  IT SHOULD CLEAR OFF
AND GET PRETTY COOL SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH LOWS NEAR 50 NORTH
AND IN THE 50S SOUTH.  THE NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN WILL BE LATE
SUNDAY NIGHT IN NERN NE...WITH APPROACHING VORT MAX. IN THE
EXTENDED RANGE...500 MB FLOW BECOMES SWLY BY TUESDAY AS THE
RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS EWD.

.OMA...NONE.
MILLER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:45 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
745 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

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

0700 PM    15 NW ONAWA               IA   1 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0720 PM    4 N CASTANA               IA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0720 PM    3 E CASTANA               IA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Special weather statement, Aug 17, 7:10 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

IAZ043-055-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050-051-065-180045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
810 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 675...ISSUED ABOUT 520 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY
AFTERNOON...IS CANCELED FOR BOONE...MADISON...STANTON...CUMING AND
THURSTON COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.   THE THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER HAS SHIFTED SOUTHEAST OF THESE COUNTIES.

THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR
BURT...PLATTE...COLFAX...DODGE...BUTLER...SEWARD...SAUNDERS AND
WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA ALONG WITH MONONA AND HARRISON
COUNTIES IN IOWA.

GW

Local storm report, Aug 17, 7:43 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
843 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

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

0758 PM    SOLDIER                   IA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0800 PM    4 NE TURIN                IA   1.5 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0800 PM    MOORHEAD                  IA   1 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0800 PM    3 E PISGAH                IA   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   HARRISON                       TEXTBOOK WALL CLOUD.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Aug 17, 8:40 PM CST, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
940 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

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

0919 PM    8 SE HARLAN               IA   88 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/01   SHELBY                         TREE BLOWN ONTO ROAD.
                                          WIND EQUIPMENT PEGGED
                                          AT 88 MPH THEN WENT
                                          BLANK. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0938 PM    3 SW MINDEN               IA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   POTTAWATTAMIE                  REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 17, 9:07 PM CST, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1007 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

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

0953 PM    1 N FAIRBURY              NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0955 PM    OAKLAND                   IA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/17/01   POTTAWATTAMIE                  EVENT DURATION 5
                                          MINUTES. REPORTED BY
                                          COOPERATIVE OBSERVER.

Local storm report, Aug 17, 9:40 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1040 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001

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

0645 PM    3 N ONAWA                 IA   TORNADO
08/17/01   MONONA                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pawnee

When: August 17, 9:40 PM CST
Where: Pawnee County, 6 mi N of Burchard
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.233, -96.350

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, 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: 5263124.