Name: Hail in Nebraska, July 3, 2001
Start: 2001-07-03T02:40
End: 2001-07-03T02:40
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 3, 1:50 AM CST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 1:50 AM CST, 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
250 AM CDT TUE JUL 3 2001

CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ACROSS NE AND E CNTRL NEB INTO WRN IA LIKELY TO
PERSIST INTO THE START OF THE MRNG AND THEN WEAKEN AS LOW LEVEL
INFLOW ASSOCIATED WITH LOW LEVEL JET INTO FRONT AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY
WEAKENS AND SHORTWAVE IN NWLY UPPER FLOW MOVES SEWD OUT OF AREA.
QUESTION THEN BECOMES POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT LATER IN
DAY WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND FRON OVER AREA. ALTHOUGH PATTERN
TENDS TO FAVOR NOCTURNAL NATURE OF CONVECTION AS LOW LEVEL JET
INCREASES INFLOW INTO BOUNDARIES...CANNOT COMPLETELY RULE OUT CHANCE
AGAIN LATER TODAY. MAIN POTENTIAL THOUGH AFTER THIS MRNG AGAIN
APPEARS TO BE TONIGHT. HOWEVER OF INTEREST FOR TONIGHT IS THAT ETA
AND NGM IN PARTICULIAR INDICATE LESS OF A LOW LEVEL JET AND LOW
LEVEL WAA INTO BOUNDARY THAN TONIGHT WHICH COULD SERVE TO SOME
DECREASE NATURE OF CONVECTION. TRENDS ON THE FOURTH INDICATE
ADVECTION OF SOMEWHAT COOLER AND DRIER AIR ON N AND NELY LOWER LEVEL
FLOW WITH MINIMAL CHANCE FOR TSTMS DURING DAY. IF ETA AND MESO ETA
CORRECT COULD SEE ANOTHER CHC FOR TSTMS AGAIN LATER WED NIGHT AS LOW
LEVEL POSITIVE THETA E ADVECTION INCREASES AGAIN OVER BOUNDARY AND
ACTIVITY LIKELY DEVELOPING OVER WRN HIGH PLAINS MOVES SEWD. TEMPS TRICKY
CALL WITH WITH QUASI STATIONARY FRON AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. AREAS
SOUTH OF BOUNDARIES LIKWLY PUSHING INTO 90S AGAIN TODAY BUT MAINLY
80S TO N.

.OMA...NONE
WIESE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:01 PM CST, 4 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1101 PM CDT MON JUL 02 2001

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

0958 PM    2 W ORCHARD               NE   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

1009 PM    5 E NIOBRARA              NE   1 INCH HAIL
07z/02/01   KNOX                           REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:27 PM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1127 PM CDT MON JUL 02 2001

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

1110 PM    WAUSA                     NE   .88 INCH HAIL
07/02/01   KNOX                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 2, 11:03 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1209 PM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

1130 PM    BLOOMFIELD                NE   .88 INCH HAIL
07/02/01   KNOX                           REPORTED BY FIRE AND
                                          RESCUE.

Local storm report, Jul 3, 1:54 AM CST, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
254 AM CDT TUE JUL 03 2001

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

0134 AM    1 W CLEARWATER            NE   1 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0146 AM    NELIGH                    NE   1 INCH HAIL
07/03/01   ANTELOPE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0220 AM    TILDEN                    NE   WIND DAMAGE
07/03/01   MADISON                        POWER LINES AND TREE
                                          LIMBS DOWN BETWEEN
                                          BATTLE CREEK AND
                                          TILDEN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:37 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Douglas

When: July 3, 2:40 AM CST
Where: Douglas County, 14 mi WSW of Omaha
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.183, -96.250

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: 5256636.