Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 2001

Name: Hail in Nebraska, July 16, 2001
Start: 2001-07-16T20:30
End: 2001-07-16T20:40
Location: Nebraska

July 16, 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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Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: $2.5 million
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 16, 2:03 PM CST, 6 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:03 PM CST, 6 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION ... CORRECTED HEADLINE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
303 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE CONVECTIVE POSSIBILITIES TONIGHT...AND
HEAT THEREAFTER.

IN THE SHORT TERM...VERY HIGH MOISTURE WAS PRESENT IN THE LOWER AND
MID LEVELS OF OAX 12Z SOUNDING.  MODELS SUGGEST THAT WARM DRY AIR AT
700 MB OVR LBF IS ALREADY ADVECTING EASTWARD...BUT PROFILERS SHOW
RATHER LIGHT WINDS...SO AIR SHOULD REMAIN MOIST AT THAT LEVEL THRU
EARLY TONIGHT.  UPPER LEVEL JET IS ALSO FAIRLY STRONG FOR THIS TIME
OF YEAR.  THE MAIN NEGATIVE FACTOR FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT IS
THAT LOW LEVEL HEATING HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED BY A FAIRLY WIDESPREAD CU
FIELD AS MOISTURE STREAMS BACK INTO THE AREA...SO SOUNDINGS MAY
REMAIN CAPPED.  THE NORTHEAST APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE AS
AREA OF MID LVL CLOUDS NEAR VTN AND ANW IS LIKELY TO DEVELOP INTO A
TSTM COMPLEX THIS EVE THEN DRIFT EAST.  EXPECT WARMING AND DRYING
TREND ALOFT TO PUT A CAP ON ACTIVITY LATER TONIGHT.  AM IN GENERAL
AGREEMENT WITH SPC OUTLOOK...BUT AS IS OFTEN THE CASE IN
JULY...THINK THAT BREAKING THE CAP AT ALL WILL BE A PROBLEM.

MODELS HAVE COME INTO AGREEMENT THAT TUESDAY WILL BE VERY HOT AND
HUMID.  WITH THE HEAT INDEX IN OUR CORE URBAN AREAS EXPECTED TO
REACH AROUND 110...AND 105 OR BETTER EVEN IN THE FRINGES OF THE
CWA...WILL ISSUE A HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE ENTIRE AREA TUESDAY.

HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS SHOULD PERSIST WEDNESDAY.  HOWEVER...HEAT
INDICIES ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO DEW POINT.  WITH SOME INDICATIONS OF
DEEPER MIXING IN ETA AND NGM MODELS ON WED WITH FALLING SFC DEW
POINTS...WILL NOT EXTEND HEAT ADVISORY INTO WED YET.  AVN IS QUITE
DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER MODELS IN DEVELOPING A DAYTIME MCS WITH
EXTENSIVE CLOUDS AND COOLER TEMPS OVER THE AREA.  THIS SEEMS AN
UNLIKELY SCENARIO WITHOUGH A STRONG SHORT WAVE.  WILL GO MOSTLY WITH
THE HOT ETA/NGM SOLUTION.  ETA DEVELOPS AN INVERTED V SOUNDING BY
WED EVENING.  IF HIGH DAYTIME TEMPS VERIFY...THIS IS WORTH AT LEAST
A SLGT CHC OF TSTMS.  WHERE THE HOTTEST 850 TEMPS UNDERLIE THE BEST
MID LEVEL MOISTURE...IN MORE WESTERN ZONES...TSTMS COULD DEVELOP
BEFORE DARK.  SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE FOR NOCTURNAL TSTMS THOUGH.

EXTENDED SHOULD REMAIN HOT UNTIL THE PATTERN SHIFTS...WHICH COULD
COME WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT NEXT SUN OR MON.  ECMWF HAS A
BETTER TRACK RECORD THAN THE MRF RECENTLY.

.OMA...HEAT ADVISORY TUESDAY EASTERN NEBRASKA AND PART OF SOUTHWEST
IOWA
POLLACK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:30 PM CST, 4 hours before

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-170301-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
530 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TONIGHT IN NORTHEAST
AND PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 10 PM CDT.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY ALSO BE NEEDED IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND
SOUTHWEST IOWA.

A VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIR MASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA
TONIGHT. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS...
COMBINED WITH SURFACE CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK SURFACE
WIND SHIFT LINE ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA...WILL CONTINUE TO GENERATE
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA TOWARD
NORTHWEST IOWA. BASED ON THE LARGE AMOUNT OF ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY
ALONG WITH FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN RISK. LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THE UNSTABLE AIR AT
LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...IS CAPPED S!OMEWHAT BY WARM AIR AT
MID LEVELS TENDING TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION. IF THE CAP
WEAKENS...RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE.

GW

Local storm report, Jul 16, 6:39 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
739 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0713 PM    5 NW NELIGH               NE   .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0718 PM    8 N NELIGH                NE   FUNNEL CLOUD
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0718 PM    9 N NELIGH                NE   WIND DAMAGE BREAKING
07/16/01    ANTELOP E                     TREE LIMBS.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:07 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
807 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0736 PM    2 N CLEARWATER            NE   1 INCH HAIL
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0752 PM    4 W NELIGH                NE   1 INCH HAIL
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 16, 8:12 PM CST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
912 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0850 PM    5 NNW ELGIN               NE   TORNADO
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0850 PM    OAKDALE                   NE   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0850 PM    OAKDALE                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY LAW
         Z                                 ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Madison

When: July 16, 8:30 PM CST to 8:40 PM CST
Where: Madison County, 5 mi NE of Newman Grove
Measured: 1 in hail
Crop damage: $2.5 million
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 41.800, -97.717

The same supercell that produced the tornado west of Madison, as well as the flash flooding in western Madison county, also produced a large amount of hail up to one inch in diameter. The hail, strong winds and heavy rain damaged between 40 and 70 percent of crops in a 3 mile wide by 8 mile long swath of farmland northeast of Newman Grove. The total damage affected around 86,000 acres of crops, mainly corn and soybeans.

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, 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: 5258817.