Hail, Keya Paha
- When
- July 30, 5:30 AM CST
- Where
- Keya Paha County, 2 mi S of Springview
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.783, -99.733
Hail in Nebraska, July 30, 2001
2 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
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 30, 2:11 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:11 AM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 311 AM CDT MON JUL 30 2001 ...POPS AND TEMPS WILL BE THE CHALLENGE THROUGHOUT FORECAST... MCS WORKING OVER FCST AREA THIS AM. OBVIOUS ABUNDANCE OF INSTABILITY THRU OUT THE COLUMN. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO SLOWLY DISSOLVE THIS AM ONCE THE LLVL JET WEAKENS AOA 15Z. ETA IS FCSTING DRYLINE BULGE THIS AFTN ACROSS NW PANHANDLE. VERY UNSTABLE ATM. BOTH THE LITTLE (IA) AND BIG GULF OF MEXICO SEEM TO BE OPEN AT THIS TIME. WIND FIELDS SUGGEST A MID LVL SPEED MAX WILL WORK IN ACROSS WY AOA 21Z WITH SHEAR INCREASING AND TENDENCY FOR SUPERCELLUAR BEHAVIOR. DEEP MOISTURE AND DEVELOPING LLVL JET COULD SUPPORT STORMS WELL INTO THE EVENING. PLUS EVERY NIGHT IT SEEMS A WEAK SPEED MAX PRODUCES MORE TSRA. ON TUESDAY FRONT SAGS THRU WESTERN HIGH PLAINS. INSTABILITY...LATE AFTERNOON LLVL CONVERGENCE AND SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH RR QUAD OF 250 MB JET SHOULD SUPPORT MORE STORMS WITH ACTIVITY DEVELOPING NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF FRONT AND LASTING INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS AS FRONT PUSHES SLOWLY SE TOWARD KS. BEYOND...EXTENDED FCST IS ON TRACK. BIG STORMS TUESDAY SHOULD ALLOW HIGH TO BUILD IN WEDS. RAIN SHIELD SHOULD COOL TEMPS OFF. SFC LOW THEREAFTER DEVELOPS OVER MT NOT SD. LET IT RIDE. .LBF...NONE. CDC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 4:10 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-301630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 510 AM CDT MON JUL 30 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM HAY SPRINGS TO BURWELL. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA THIS MORNING COMBINED WITH STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY NORTH OF HYANNIS TO BARTLETT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS THROUGH MID MORNING. LATER THIS AFTERNOON...ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH A VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO PRODUCE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM HAY SPRINGS TO BURWELL...SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA INTO TONIGHT DUE TO THE HIGHLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND FOCUS NEAR SEVERAL EXISTING SURFACE BOUNDARIES. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. KAR
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:32 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Rock
- When
- July 30, 5:55 AM CST
- Where
- Rock County, 6 mi NNE of Bassett
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.667, -99.467
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.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 30, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 30, 2001
- Heat in Minnesota, July 30 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 30, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 30 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5255406, 5255407.