Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 8, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 8, 2001
Start: 2001-07-08T01:05
End: 2001-07-08T03:35
Location: Nebraska

July 8, 2001 · NWS LBF · 8 events in 5 counties and zones

7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $31,000
Crop damage: $13,000
Events: 8

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 8, 1:05 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:05 AM CST, 0 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
205 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 2001

...FCST CHALLENGE THRU FCST PD CONTS TO BE THREAT OF PCPN AND
TEMPS...

0600 UTC SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED QSTRNY FNT LOCATED FM NERN CO EWD
ALNG NE/KS BORDER TO S OF KHDE...THEN NE TO NR KLNK INTO SWRN IA.
MCC IN PROGRESS OVR NERN CO WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY DISPLACING SFC FNT
SWD INTO E CNTRL CO.  2ND COMPLEX OVR WRN NEB SANDHILLS.  LIKE LAST
NGT...OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FM LATTER COMPLEX LKLY TO DISPLACE SFC FNT S
OF ST LN BY DAYBREAK.

LTST SATL PIC SHWS UPR RDG ANCHORED OVR CNTRL KS...BUT WITH SLOW
DISPLACEMENT INTO NRN OK EXPECTED NXT 60 HRS.  WITH SFC FNT AND UPR
RDG PROGRESSIVELY FURTHER S NXT COUPLE OF DAYS...STRENGTH OF H7 CAP
WL GRDLY RELAX...INCRG CHC THAT CONVECT ACTVTY NXT COUPLE OF DAYS WL
IMPACT SRN NEB AS WELL AS AREAS FURTHER N.

TIMING OF CONVECT ACTVTY WL BE DEPENDENT ON MVMNT OF WK UPR IMPULSES
ROTATING ARND PERIPHERY OF UPR RDG (MANY OF WHICH ARE CONVECTIVELY
GENERATED FM ERYR CONVECT ACTVTY OVER SWRN PTN OF NATION)...WITH
ADTNL CONVECT ACTVTY INDEPENDENT OF IMPULSES DURG LTE AFTN/EVNG HRS
OVR/NR LEE SLOPES OF RCKYS WHERE POOLING OF SFC DEW PNTS N OF SFC
FNT IN UPSLOPE FLO AND SENSIBLE HTG OF HIR TERRAIN WL MORE EASILY
BREAK CAP.  MN FLO WUD CARRY ANY SUCH CONVECT ACTVTY EWD INTO LBF
CWA DURG OVNGT HRS.

ETA HAS DONE A SUPERB JOB PST SVRL DAYS IN ANTICIPATING DVLPMNT...
MOVMNT...AND ARRIVAL OF SUCH SYSTMS INTO WRN AND NRN NEB...AND SEE
NO NEED TO DEVIATE ATTM.  NGM CONVECT PARAMETERIZATION SCHEME TOO
BULLISH WHEN COMPARED TO VERIFYING CONDNS...AND AVN ALSO SUSPECT.
BOTH MODEL SOLNS THEREFORE DISCARDED OVR SUPERIOR ETA...WHICH IS
MOST LKLY PERFORMING BETTER DUE TO HIR RESOLUTION OF SFC-H7 LYRS
WHICH WL BE CRITICAL NXT SVRL DAYS TO CONVECT INITIATION.

CONVECT ACTVTY LKLY TO DIMINSH AND THEN END OVR LBF CWA THIS MRNG...
WITH SUBSEQUENT DVLPMNT LTR THIS AFTN ACRS XTRM W AND PERHAPS N
CNTRL ZNS.  DEEPENING NE-ELY MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW AND MID/HI LVL CLD
DEBRIS SHD PVNT EXTREME TEMPS FM BEING REALIZED THIS AFTN...WITH
OVERALL TEMPS SVRL DEG COOLER THAN THOSE OF YSTDY...SPCLY ACRS XTRM
SRN ZNS.  ANOTHER SVRL DEG OF COOLING EXPECTED ON MON AS H8-H7 TEMPS
CONT TO SLOLY COOL AS UPR RDG SHFTS SLGTLY S.

WL RUN WITH CHC POPS ALL ZNS FOR MAINLY LTE AFTN INTO MID-LTE MRNG
HRS THRU FCST PD AS PER ETA QPF SOLNS BASED ON ABV REASONING. WITH
OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MORE PRONOUNCED AND FURTHER S THAN PST SVRL
DAYS...AMPLE MID/HI LVL CLDS...AND SLO MID LVL COOLING...GUID TEMPS
MORE REASONABLE THAN PAST SVRL DAYS...ALTHO STILL A BIT LOW DURG
DAYTIME PDS.

DO NOT PLAN ON MAKING SIG CHGS TO EXISTING EXTENDED FCST ATTM. WL
CONT WITH SLGT CHC PCPN THREAT MOST AREAS FOR TUE AND WED WITH RING
OF FIRE ARND UPR RDG STILL IN VCNTY OF WRN AND N CNTRL NEB.
SOMEWHAT COOLER AND DRIER AIR ARRIVING WITH BACKDOOR CDFNT THU INTO
SAT SHD BRING RETURN TO DRY BUT SEASONABLY WRM WX.

.LBF...NONE.

WERT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 7, 9:16 PM CST, 3 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
1016 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1010 PM    6 NW ANTIOCH              NE   .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/01   SHERIDAN

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Event by event

7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln

When: July 8, 1:05 AM CST
Where: Lincoln County, North Platte
Measured: 56 kt (64 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.150, -100.783

Large tree limbs were down at Cody Park.

Thunderstorm Wind, Logan

When: July 8, 1:25 AM CST
Where: Logan County, Stapleton
Measured: 56 kt (64 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.483, -100.517

An 8 inch diameter tree limb was down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Custer

When: July 8, 1:40 AM CST
Where: Custer County, 6 mi W of Merna
Measured: 61 kt (70 mph)
Property damage: $25,000
Crop damage: $5,000
Reported by: NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates: 41.483, -99.883

Off-duty NWS employee reported high winds with large trees down and a grain bin destroyed. A fertilizer and seed plant was also demolished.

Thunderstorm Wind, Custer

When: July 8, 2:30 AM CST
Where: Custer County, 8 mi SE of Sargent
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.550, -99.250

Large limbs were broken off trees.

Hail, Custer

When: July 8, 2:30 AM CST
Where: Custer County, 8 mi SE of Sargent
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $6,000
Crop damage: $8,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.550, -99.250

Thunderstorm Wind, Garfield

When: July 8, 3:00 AM CST
Where: Garfield County, 10 mi ESE of Burwell
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.733, -98.950

Thunderstorm Wind, Wheeler

When: July 8, 3:20 AM CST
Where: Wheeler County, 5 mi E of Ericson
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.783, -98.583

Winds toppled over large trees and numerous tree limbs were down.

Thunderstorm Wind, Wheeler

When: July 8, 3:35 AM CST
Where: Wheeler County, 13 mi SE of Bartlett
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.750, -98.367

A 12 inch diameter tree was uprooted.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5255740, 5255739, 5255741, 5255742, 5255746, 5255743, 5255744, 5255745.