Hail in Nebraska, August 23, 2001

Name: Hail in Nebraska, August 23, 2001
Start: 2001-08-23T06:15
End: 2001-08-23T15:30
Location: Nebraska

August 23, 2001 · NWS LBF · 6 events in 4 counties and zones

6 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $8,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 6

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 23, 1:15 AM MST, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 1:15 AM MST, 5 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
315 AM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

...HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT SETTING UP ACROSS THE CNTL PLAINS...

POIGNANT UPPER LEVEL LOW FCST TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY ACROSS CNTL PLAINS
THRU 60HRS.  850 MB THETA E ADVECTING WWD THIS AM INTO WRN NEB.
H20 VAPOR SATELLITE SHOWS STG DIVERGENCE DEVELOPING NEWD TO THETA-E.
ETA WHICH HAS BEEN DOING QUITE WELL THUS FAR WITH SYSTEM IGNITES A
RARE WWD MOVING CONVECTIVE CLUSTER COVERING MUCH OF NEB WITH IGNITION
AOA 15Z THIS AM OVER ERN NEB.  CLUSTER SWEEPS WWD AND INTO PANHANDLE
BY 21Z.  PROPAGATION IS DISCRETE...MOVING W AT 40 MPH.

UPPER LEVEL LOW BECOMES VERTICALLY STACKED BY EARLY EVENING ACROSS
NRN KS. DEFORMATION ZONE MIGHT SET UP ACROSS SRN NEB ZONES AND SHIFT
SLOWLY EWD TONIGHT.  DESPITE FRONTOGENESIS OVER NW ZONES TONIGHT...
LARGE SCALE DRYING ALOFT OCCURS.  EXPECT SOME FOG COULD DEVELOP AS
LOW LEVEL THETA E REMAINS IN PLACE.

FRIDAY...SOME CHANCE FOR AFTN TSRA AS LIS REMAIN AROUND -4 TO -6.
COLD AIR REMAINS ALOFT.  NO STG FORCING IS EXPECTED SO NOTHING TO
ORGANIZED.  JUST A WEAK SPD MAX IN THE AFTN WITH SHEAR INCREASING TO
NR 25 KT.

FRIDAY NIGHT...NW FLOW DEVELOPS WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING S.  MAIN
ACTION DEVELOPS SAT PM ACROSS MUCH OF FCST AREA.  LITTLE CHNG SUNDAY
AFTN AS FRONT IS LOCATED OVER SWRN NEB AND ANOTHER SPD MAX MOVES IN.

REST OF XTNDED OTAY.

.LBF...NONE.

CDC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 3:28 AM MST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-231630-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
528 AM CDT THU AUG 23 2001

...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR
TONIGHT OVER WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS ARE
NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE NEBRASKA KANSAS
BORDER TODAY...TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.  NO FRONTAL
BOUNDARY WILL BE OVER THE AREA TO PROVIDE ANY FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR
STORMS.  THEREFORE...STORMS WHICH DO FORM MAY BE STRONG...BUT BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS.

SLM

The radar

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Event by event

6 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Perkins

When: August 23, 6:15 AM MST
Where: Perkins County, 2 mi NW of Madrid
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $8,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.867, -101.567

Hail, Perkins

When: August 23, 6:35 AM MST
Where: Perkins County, 5 mi NE of Grant
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.900, -101.650

Hail, Chase

When: August 23, 10:25 AM MST
Where: Chase County, 3 mi S of Champion
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.417, -101.750

Hail, Cherry

When: August 23, 11:50 AM CST
Where: Cherry County, 19 mi WSW of Brownlee
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.183, -100.967

Hail, Cherry

When: August 23, 12:45 PM MST
Where: Cherry County, 8 mi S of Kilgore
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.817, -100.967

Hail, Frontier

When: August 23, 3:30 PM CST
Where: Frontier County, 6 mi S of Eustis
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.583, -100.033

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: 5256904, 5256905, 5256906, 5256907, 5256908, 5256909.