Hail, Dawes
- When
- July 4, 3:30 AM MST to 3:33 AM MST
- Where
- Dawes County, 9 mi S of Chadron
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 42.700, -103.000
3/4 inch hail reported at Chadron State Park.
Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
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
- Other
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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 4, 1:34 AM MST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:34 AM MST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 234 AM MDT WED JUL 4 2001 WEAK LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY TO REMAIN QUASISTATIONARY OVER EASTERN WY TODAY AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT REMAINS ANCHORED OVER WRN CO AND ERN UT. TEMPERATURES TODAY TO REMAIN QUITE WARM. MODELS MOVE A SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE RIDGE TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH THE SHORTWAVE MOVING FROM NORTHERN WY THIS AFTERNOON TO THE WRN NEB PANHANDLE TONIGHT. IT WILL COMBINE WITH HIGH DEWPOINTS EAST OF THE LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY TO PRODUCE A SCATTERED COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS BY THIS EVENING. WITH A DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIRMASS...PRECIPITATION COVERAGE WILL BE LESS WEST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL CHANGE LITTLE FOR THU ALTHOUGH DYNAMICS WILL BE WEAKER. WILL KEEP LOW POPS FOR THU AFTERNOON WITH CONTINUED WARM TEMPS. WILL MAKE NO MAJOR CHANGES TO EXTENDED FORECAST. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. JR
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 159 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat and Drought in Oklahoma, July 4 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
- High Surf in Puerto Rico, July 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 4, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 4, 2001
- Tornado in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 4, 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: 5257966.