Nebraska, 2001

Hail in Nebraska, July 7, 2001

July 7, 2001 · NWS CYS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
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  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 12:33 PM MST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:33 PM MST, 5 hours 35 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 4 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

JK
Local storm report, Jul 7, 5:38 PM MST, 30 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   LARAMIE

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Kimball

When
July 7, 6:08 PM MST to 6:13 PM MST
Where
Kimball County, 18 mi S of Bushnell
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
40.967, -103.900

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 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: 5256698.