Nebraska, 2001

Hail in Nebraska, July 12, 2001

July 12, 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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  • Heat and drought
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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 Jul 11, 2:00 PM CST, 10 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:00 PM CST, 10 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
300 PM CDT WED JUL 11 2001

CHANCE OF PCPN OVERNIGHT...WITH POTENTIAL FOR HVY RAIN IN SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA IS THE MAIN PROBLEM IN THE SHORT TERM.  SURFACE ANALYSIS AT
19Z SHOWED LOW PRES CENTERED OVER THE OK PNHDL...WITH A WARM FRONT
CURVING FROM THE LOW INTO NRN KS AND THEN INTO SRN MO.  DEWPOINTS
IN THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S WERE BEING PULLED UP IN THE SELY FLOW.
PATCHY LIGHT SHOWERS/WEAK TSTMS EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF OUR AREA
DURING THE EVENING...ASSOCIATED WITH VORT MAX AND SHORTWAVE MOVING
IN FROM CNTRL NE.  THERE IS SOME POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS IN
SERN NE...CLOSER TO FRONTAL BOUNDARY.  AIRMASS IS HEATING UP NICELY
WITH LOWER 90S AS FAR NORTH AS CONCORDIA.  EXPECT ANOTHER MCS OVER
THE WRN HIGH PLAINS EARLY TONIGHT...THEN IT SHOULD MOVE EWD.  THIS
WILL LIKELY MERGE WITH ANOTHER AREA OF CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS
IN SCNTRL NE OR NCNTRL KS.  PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES REMAIN HIGH
WITH OVER TWO INCHES ON THE TOPEKA SOUNDING THIS MORNING.  ETA
DEPICTS THIS MAINLY TO OUR SOUTH...BUT LATEST GOES SOUNDER OUTPUT
SHOWS IT CURRENTLY OVER SERN NE/NERN KS AND NWRN MO.  WILL NOT ISSUE
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL MENTION AREAS OF HEAVY
RAIN.  12Z ETA APPEARS TOO FAR S WITH ITS QPF.  EXPECT LOWS IN THE
MID 60S NORTH TO AROUND 70 SOUTH.

OVERALL...HAVE LEANED TOWARD A BLEND OF THE 12Z ETA AND AVN MODEL
OUTPUTS FOR THE THURSDAY-FRIDAY FORECAST.  FLOW PATTERN DOES CHANGE
A LITTLE...CENTER OF 500 MB HIGH MOVES SWWD.  MCS THURSDAY NIGHT
EXPECTED TO BE FARTHER SOUTH...IN KANSAS.  WILL STILL HOLD ONTO
SOME CHANCE OF PCPN THURSDAY NIGHT MOST AREAS...BUT ONLY KEEP POPS
IN NERN NE FOR FRIDAY.  SOME COOLER AIR WILL MOVE IN AT THE LOW
LEVELS...AS HIGH PRES BUILDS DOWN FROM WI AND MN ON FRIDAY.  TEMPS
WILL BE A LITTLE BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.  IN THE
EXTENDED PERIOD...WILL HAVE TO KEEP SOME CHANCE OF TSTMS SUNDAY
THROUGH WEDNESDAY.  FIRST DRAFT OF THE WORK ZONES WAS SENT.

.OMA...NONE.
MILLER

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:42 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Gage

When
July 12, 12:45 AM CST
Where
Gage County, 3 mi S of Beatrice
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
40.217, -96.733

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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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: 5258353.