Name: Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 2001
Start: 2001-07-01T15:31
End: 2001-07-01T15:35
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $40,000
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 Jul 1, 12:45 PM MST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 12:45 PM MST, 2 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
145 PM MDT SUN JUL 1 2001

APPEARS TO BE ENOUGH SUBSIDENCE BEHIND UPPER FEATURE MOVING INTO
PLAINS THAT IT IS INHIBITING DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.  STILL
EXPECT SOME STORMS TO FIRE ON WEAK BOUNDARIES...LIKE ONE FROM ARL TO
LAR AND ANOTHER ONE ACROSS W LARAMIE COUNTY.  AIRMASS ALSO REMAINS
STRONGLY CAPPED.  FRONT HAS RETREATED N...NOW NEAR S EDGE OF LOW
CLOUDS FROM LUSK TO N OF AIA.  NEXT S/WV TROF APPEARS TO BE THE ONE
BACK OVER CENTRAL UT TURNING NNE AROUND UPPER HIGH.  AVN LIKELY TOO
STRONG AND FAST WITH THIS FEATURE...WILL LEAN TOWARD MESOETA WHICH
DOES BRING IT INTO OUR AREA...MAINLY LATER THIS EVENING.  FEATURE
WEAKENS WITH TIME...BUT MAY BE ENOUGH FOR SOME TSTMS ON MON
AFTERNOON SE WY.  FRONT FCST TO REMAIN ABOUT WHERE IT IS NOW THROUGH
MON...WITH ANOTHER HOT DAY LIKELY ON MON S OF FRONT.  IN LONGER RANGE
...THE ETA IS STRONGEST WITH A FEATURE WHICH MOVES INTO THE REGION
ON MON EVENING.  AVN ALSO SUGGESTS IT IS THERE.  BOTH MODELS HAVE
DECENT RISING MOTION WITH FEATURE...WITH SOME RAIN...AND ALSO USE IT
TO HELP FORCE FRONT S AGAIN MON NIGHT.  TUE LOOKS TO BE A BIT COOLER
E OF MTNS WITH SFC HIGH BUILDING INTO MT/DAKS...BUT AGAIN CAN'T RULE
OUT A FEW LATE DAY STORMS.  IN EXTENDED...NOT MUCH CHANGES...UPPER
HIGH SHIFTS A LITTLE WNW INTO UT...THEN DROPS SE INTO CO...WHILE
FLOW ALOFT BECOMES A BIT MORE NW OVER REGION.  WILL GIVE UP ON IDEA
OF NOTICEABLY COOLER WEATHER SLIPPING INTO REGION...ALTHOUGH APPEARS
THAT WED/THU SHOULD BE A BIT COOLER...THEN WARMER AGAIN ON FRI/SAT.
HOWEVER...TEMPS NOT CHANGING BY MUCH MORE THAN 5 TO 8 DEGREES...NOT
REALLY WORTH BREAKING OUT SPECIFIC DAYS FOR.  THREAT OF LATE DAY
STORMS CONTINUES...ESPECIALLY E OF MTNS WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE DECENT
MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN PLACE.

.CYS...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Morrill

When: July 1, 3:31 PM MST to 3:35 PM MST
Where: Morrill County, Broadwater
Measured: 2.75 in hail
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.600, -102.850

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

More

Every storm in Nebraska in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, July 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: 5257955.