Hail, Box Butte
- When
- August 31, 3:58 PM MST to 4:05 PM MST
- Where
- Box Butte County, 7 mi SW of Alliance
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.033, -102.983
Hail in Nebraska, August 31, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 1:35 PM MST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 1:35 PM MST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 235 PM MDT FRI AUG 31 2001 SCT SHOWERS AND TSTORMS DVPG OVR AREA ATTM WITH UPR DIST MOVG ACROSS WY. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO CONT THIS EVNG WITH UPR SYSTEM MOVG SLOWLY EWRD. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT MOVING UPPER TROF INTO NEBRASKA SATURDAY BUT SOME ENERGY STILL LAGS INTO SE WY. W PART OF CWA LOOKS DRY SAT BUT WL KEEP LOW POPS E WITH SYSTEM STILL IN AREA. ACTIVITY WILL BE MORE ISOLD WITH LIS ONLY IN THE -1 RANGE AND LIMITED MOISTURE. SHOULD DRY OUT SAT NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH UPR RIDGING OVER THE MTNS INTO THE NRN PLAINS AND NVA SPREADING ACROSS THE CWA. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION...DRY WEATHER FOR THE HOLIDAY WITH SOME MONSOONAL MOISTURE POSSIBLY AFFECTING WRN PARTS OF CWA BY TUE. A CHANGE IN THE WX IS STILL ON TAP BY MID TO LATE IN THE WEEK. ALTHOUGH MRF LOOKS TO BE OVERDOING ITS BIG CUTOFF UPPER LOW OVER WRN U.S. EVEN A COMPROMISE IN THE MDLS BRINGS A CDFNT ACRS WY FOR AT LEAST A SLIGHT COOLING OF TEMPS ALG WITH A CHANCE OF SHWRS/FEW TSTMS. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. RE/JLH
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 180 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:55 UTC.
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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 31, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 31, 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: 5257440.