Hail, Box Butte
- When
- July 7, 6:47 PM MST to 6:53 PM MST
- Where
- Box Butte County, 5 mi W of Alliance
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.100, -102.983
Hail in Nebraska, July 7, 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 7, 12:33 PM MST, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:33 PM MST, 6 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 133 PM MDT SAT JUL 7 2001 VORTICITY CENTER NEAR ID/NV/UT BORDER STARTING TO MAKE TURN TO NORTHEAST. IT MAY BE A LITTLE SLOW GETTING TO NORTHWEST WY...AS PROGGED BY MODELS FOR 00 UTC/6 PM. LOBE FROM THIS CENTER EXTENDS SOUTHEAST THROUGH CENTRAL UT. POSSIBLY ALREADY SECONDARY LOBE FROM WEST-CENTRAL WY TO NORTH-CENTRAL CO TRIGGERING ACTIVITY THERE. STORMS ON LOCAL 88D FIRING OVER MOUNTAINS AND MOVING LITTLE. NORTHEASTERN-MOST STORMS CLOSE TO PROGGED 700 MB THETA-E RIDGE AXIS. STORMS HAVE SHOWN SLIGHT TO BACK BUILD...UPSTREAM OF MEAN STORM FLOW. BEST INSTABILITY PERSISTS OVER FAR NORTH NEB PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST SD WITH -4 TO -6 LI/S OVER MUCH OF CWA. WITH UPPER DYNAMICS STILL WELL UPSTREAM AND STORMS SHOWING LITTLE CELLULAR ORGANIZATION YET...MAY BE ABLE TO HOLD OFF ON WATCH FOR 2-4 HRS. PATTERN REMAINS UNCHANGED NEXT COUPLE DAYS WITH UPPER HIGH OVER KS AND RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING NORTHWESTWARD THROUGH WY TO NORTHERN ROCKIES. ETA DEVELOPS WEAK 500 MB LOWS OR VORTICITY CENTERS OVER NV SUN-MON AND MOVES THEM NORTHEASTWARD THRU ID INTO MT. AVN DEVELOPS STRONG CENTERS OVER SOUTHWEST CORNER WY AND NORTH-CENTRAL NM BY 42 HRS...THEN MOVES THEM NORTHEASTWARD. AT SURFACE...DURING WARM PART OF DAYS...WILL HAVE SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTHEAST CO WITH STATIONARY FRONT OR INVERTED TROUGH EXTENDING NORTHWESTWARD THROUGH CENTRAL WY. WILL GO WITH SCATTERED P.M. STORM POPS WITH ISOLATED A.M. SHOWERS. NOT ALOT OF CHANGE IN TEMPS. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION... STRONG UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER CWA THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THICKNESS VALUES WILL NOT CHANGE MUCH FROM DAY TO DAY WITH NO MAJOR FRONTS EXPECTED TO PASS ACROSS AREA. SURFACE WINDS WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY LIGHT...OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. VARYING AMOUNTS OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE WILL MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. FORECASST WILL REMAIN THE SAME THROUGH THE EXTENDED WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING ABOUT THE SAME FROM DAY TO DAY...WITH A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. COX/KMD
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 7, 4:04 PM MST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
504 PM MDT SAT JUL 7 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
+
0459 PM 5 E BURNS WY 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/07/01 LARAMIE
JKLocal storm report, Jul 7, 5:38 PM MST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
638 PM MDT SAT JUL 7 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
^
0625 PM 11 W ALBIN WY 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/07/01 LARAMIELocal storm report, Jul 7, 6:12 PM MST, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
712 PM MDT SAT JUL 7 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0708 PM 18 S BUSHNELL NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/07/01 KIMBALL
JKLocal storm report, Jul 7, 6:25 PM MST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
725 PM MDT SAT JUL 7 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 PM 2 S PINE BLUFFS WY .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/01 LARAMIE
JKThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 in Missouri, July 7 to 10, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 7 to 9, 2001
- Heat in Texas, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 7, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, July 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in California, July 7, 2001
- Heat in Kentucky, July 7 to 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 7, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 7 to 9, 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: 5258045.