1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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, 1:30 PM MST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 230 PM MDT WED JUL 4 2001 WELL DEFINED S/WV TROF OVR ID...WITH SHWRS/TSTMS DVLPG IN ADVANCE OF FEATURE OVR CENTRAL/NRN WYOMING. WAVE SHOULD RIDE SOUTHEAST ALONG THICKNESS GRADIENT THIS EVENING...PASSING INTO THE WRN PANHANDLE BETWEEN 03Z-06Z. BEST SVR POTENTIAL ALONG AND NORTH OF THE PLATTE VALLEY...WHERE MOISTURE...INSTABILITY AND SHEAR PROFILES ARE MORE IMPRESSIVE. WL PUT HIGHEST POPS OVR NORTHEAST PARTS OF THE FA /LUSK-CDR/...WITH A DOWNWARD TREND ON POPS FURTHER SOUTH. WITH WAVE MOVING THRU OVERNIGHT...WL DOWNPLAY LOW CLDS/FOG POTENTIAL OVR THE PANHANDLE. A MORE EVIDENT LEE TROF SET UP ON THU...WITH LESS H8-H7 MSTR. TSTMS SHOULD BE LESS NUMEROUS WITH WEAKER DYNAMICS AND SLIGHTLY LESS LOW LVL MSTR. TEMPS AS WARM OR EVEN A FEW DEGF WARMER THAN TODAY...AS H7 THERMAL RIDGE REMAINS ANCHORED OVR THE FA. AS UPR HIGH SHIFTS FURTHER EAST ON FRI AND RIDGE BECOMES FLATTER OVR THE FA...MONSOONAL TYPE MSTR BEGINS TO BE DRAWN OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST STATES AND ACRS THE AREA. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE OF AFTN TSTMS /ESPECIALLY OVR SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND THE MTNS/. LITTLE CHANGE IN H7 TEMPS ON FRI...BUT A FEW MORE CLDS MAY RESULT IN TEMPS A COUPLE OF DEGF COOLER THAN THU. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION... MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH LARGE SCALE PATTERN. MRF STARTS TO BUILD HEIGHTS OVER THE WESTERN PART OF WY BY END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD...LEAVING OUR CWA IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALFOT. THE ECMWF STARTS STRETCHING THE UPPER HIGH...LEAVING FLAT RIDGE OR WEAK SW FLOW ALOFT OVER AREA. EITHER WAY...WILL NEED TO KEEP A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...PRETTY TYPICAL THIS TIME OF YEAR. TEMPERATURES LOOK LIKE THEY SHOULD BE A BIT CLOSER TO NORMAL...BUT STILL ON THE WARM SIDE0. .CYS... WY...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM MDT WY ZNS 59..60..67>68. NE...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM MDT NE ZNS 1>3..19..21. JK/RGB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
639 PM MDT WED JUL 4 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0537 PM 25 N SCOTTSBLUFF NE 2.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 SIOUX WIND SHIELDS DAMAGED
0552 PM 18 WNW ALLIANCE NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 BOX BUTTE
0618 PM 9 NNE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 2.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 SIOUX
0620 PM 9 SE KIMBALL NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 KIMBALL
0631 PM 5 N KIMBALL NE .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 KIMBALL
BANNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
741 PM MDT WED JUL 4 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0641 PM SCOTTSBLUFF NE 3.00 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 SCOTTS BLUFF REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT . VEHICLE
DAMAGE.
0645 PM SCOTTSBLUFF NE 59 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/04/01 SCOTTS BLUFF REPORTED BY KBFF ASOS
0646 PM KIMBALL NE .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 KIMBALL
0652 PM GERING NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 SCOTTS BLUFF
0723 PM MINITARE NE 2.00 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 SCOTTS BLUFF 1 TO 2 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
BANNThe Rapid City radar (KUDX), 167 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:21 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Estimated 70 mph thunderstorm winds uprooted some trees and knockedout power in Crawford.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 2001
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: 5258043.