Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 2001

Name: Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 2001
Start: 2001-07-28T21:30
End: 2001-07-28T21:30
Location: Nebraska

July 28, 2001 · NWS LBF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $8,000
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 7:40 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:40 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
840 PM CDT SAT JUL 28 2001

WATCH #637 ON ITS WAY...CLUSTER OF STORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST OUT OF SD
SHOULD HOLD TOGETHER INTO NC ZONES. LAPS DATA SHOWS FAIRLY HIGH CIN
VALUES IN THE NERN ZONES...SO SOME CONCERN ABOUT POTENTIAL FOR
WINDS TO GET TO THE GROUND. STILL..AS STORMS FROM WRN CHERRY MOVE
INTO LOW LEVEL JET WHICH IS INCREASING...SOME ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT
IS POSSIBLE.f MERRIMAN PROFILER INDICATING 0-2KM SHEAR INCREASING AND
WITH STORMS MOVING SE...INFLOW SHOULD BE FAVORABLE AS THEY MOVE
INTO DEEPER MOISTURE.

.LBF...NONE.

JWS

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:31 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Keya Paha

When: July 28, 9:30 PM CST
Where: Keya Paha County, 19 mi NW of Springview
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $8,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 43.017, -100.000

Small tree limbs down.

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: 5255384.