Name: Hail in Nebraska, July 15, 2001
Start: 2001-07-15T19:50
End: 2001-07-15T19:55
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $12,000
Crop damage: $8,000
Events: 2

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 Jul 15, 12:43 PM MST, 7 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 12:43 PM MST, 7 hours 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
243 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 2001

...CONCERNS...1ST PD POP AND TEMPS PDS 2 AND BEYOND...

ATM REMAINS MOIST...COOL AND UNSTABLE THIS AFTN.  CONVECTIVE TEMP HAS
SHOWED ITSELF IN THE LOWER 80S WITH CONVECTION FIRING ACROSS NCNTL
ZONES WITH WEAK UPPER LEVEL FORCING.  MEANWHILE KPUB IS 90F AT 19Z.
IF THIS WAA CONTS AND SPREADS INTO THE ITR-LIC-LAA-LHX AREA...SWRN
NEB ZONES COULD SEE CONVECTION BY EARLY EVENING.  AWAITING 18Z ETA
FOR FINAL LOOK AT 1ST PD FCST.  OVERALL SCT POPS SHOULD WORK MOST
AREAS. BY MONDAY AM DRYLINE IS NR SNY AND WILL MARCH EWD TO KOGA BY
21Z. EXPECT DRYLINE TO LINE UP FROM KOGA NE TO KANW THRU 21Z TUES
WITH GOOD DRYING AND WAA PATTERN SETTING PER DAKOTA LOW AND WEST
COAST TROF. TROPICAL AIR MASS IN PLACE AHEAD OF DRYLINE.  RECENT
RAINS AND MOIST AIR WILL INHIBIT WARMING SOME.  ALSO 850 MB TEMPS
ONLY NEAR 28C BOTH DAYS SO TEMPS 90-100F ARE ALL THAT IS EXPECTED.
DONT SEE MUCH FORCING FOR MONDAY AFTN FOR SVR WX.  LOOKS LIKE
MISSOURI BASIN EVENT FOR THE MOST PART.

BEYOND...WAA CONTS WED-THUR WITH DAKOTA LOW HUNG OVER RIDGE AXIS.
FCST AREA REMAINS UNDER RF QUAD FOR MOST PART.  A WEAK TROPICAL VORT
CENTER ROTATES THRU AREA WEDS BUT VERY LIMITED CONVECTION IS ALL
WITH SUBSIDENCE RULING.  FRIDAY COULD BE THE WARMEST DAY OF ALL IF
CONDS REMAIN DRY AND COMPRESSIONAL WARMING DEVELOPS PER AVN FRI AFTN.
FRONT COULD ALSO BE THE FOCUS FOR TSRA IF VERY WARM CONDS DEVELOP.
ON SATURDAY LARGE SCALE ATM READJUSTMENT OCCURS AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
RETREATS WWD LEAVING FCST AREA IN NW FLOW.  IF WIDESPREAD CONVECTION
DEVELOPS SATURDAY PER MRF...DRY STABLE CONDS SHOULD PREVAIL ON
SUNDAY.

.LBF...NONE.

CDC

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:52 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Garden

When: July 15, 7:50 PM MST
Where: Garden County, Oshkosh
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $6,000
Crop damage: $4,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.417, -102.333

Hail, Garden

When: July 15, 7:55 PM MST
Where: Garden County, Oshkosh
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $6,000
Crop damage: $4,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.417, -102.333

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.

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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: 5256424, 5256425.