Hail, Sherman
- When
- June 11, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sherman County, 1 mi E of Hazard
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.100, -99.067
Hail in Nebraska, June 11 to 12, 2001
4 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
- $200,000
- Events
- 4
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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 2:09 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:09 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 309 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 ...POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS/HEAVY RAIN THE MAIN CONCERN... THE CAP CONTINUES TO BE THE PRIMARY PLAYER REGARDING POPS. LAST FEW HOURS OF VISIBLE SATELLITE LOOP HAS SHOWN HIGH BASED CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN NEBRASKA...BUT ANYTHING THAT DEVELOPS ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE HAS QUICKLY DISSIPATED IN THE WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES. 12Z NORTH PLATTE 700 MB TEMPERATURE WAS 15 DEGREES. HIGH CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES NOT ALLOWING SURFACE BASED CUMULUS TO DEVELOP OVER MOST OF CENTRAL OR SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AS OF 1930Z. HOWEVER...THE SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS WELL DEFINED ON THE 18Z ANALYSIS...WITH STRONG CONVERGENCE ALONG THIS FRONT. BOUNDARY HAS BEEN FRONTOGENETIC...ADDING TO THE ASCENT AHEAD OF THE FRONT. AIRMASS IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE...WITH 19Z LAPS OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS SHOWING CAPES OF 4000-5000 J/KG AHEAD OF FRONT. BROAD PERSISTENT VERTICAL MOTION IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT SHOULD REDUCE THE STRENGTH OF THE CAP SOME THIS AFTERNOON...AND THE FORCING ALONG THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO CHIP INTO THE WARMER AIR. PROGGED LFC HEIGHTS ON ETA MODEL ARE FAIRLY HIGH...SO IT COULD BE SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE AIR IS LIFTED SUFFICIENTLY. GENERAL THINKING IS STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO THE EVENING HOURS...WITH INCREASING SOUTHERN PROPAGATION INTO THE LOW LEVEL JET. ETA SHOWS THE 850 WINDS UP TO 55 KNOTS BY 09Z...SO OVERNIGHT TONIGHT ANY MCS SHOULD WORK INTO MY NORTHERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES. POPS WILL RANGE FROM 70 NORTHEAST TO 30 SOUTHEAST...AND MAY KEEP SOUTHWEST COUNTIES DRY TONIGHT. THE FRONTAL POSITION TUESDAY WILL DETERMINE POPS FOR THE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME...BUT THERE IS DECENT MODEL AGREEMENT ON CYCLOGENISIS OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNDER SOUTHWEST UPPER FLOW...WHICH WOULD SUPPORT PUSHING THE FRONT BACK INTO NORTHERN NEBRASKA. SIMILAR SCENARIO UNFOLDS TUESDAY...ALTHOUGH STRONGER FRONTOGENISIS WITH A STRONGER LOW LEVEL JET. POPS TUESDAY NIGHT WILL BE SIMILAR TO TONIGHT. WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS AROUND 70 AND HIGH PRECIP WATERS...SOME CONCERN FOR TRAINING CELLS AND HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES ARE MOSTLY AT OR ABOVE 2.0 INCHES...SO WILL NOT ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH BUT MENTION HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAIN THREAT APPEARS EVEN HIGHER FOR TUESDAY NIGHT...ESPECIALLY FOR ANY AREAS THAT RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT. SEVERE THREAT ALSO EXISTS TODAY AND TONIGHT PER SWODY1/DY2...GIVEN SUCH HIGH INSTABILITY AND PROXIMITY TO BOUNDARY. MOST OF THE CWFA SHOULD REMAIN IN THE WARM SECTOR...BUT ANY SUPERCELLS ON THE COOL SECTOR WILL BE IN A STRONGLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT. WITH UPPER LOW MIGRATING TO OUR NORTH AND FRONTAL POSITION IN THE AREA...PATTERN WILL REMAIN ACTIVE INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT LEAST. .GID...NONE. NIETFELD
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Howard
- When
- June 11, 6:17 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County, 4 mi N of Farwell
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.267, -98.633
Hail, Howard
- When
- June 11, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County, 1 mi W of Elba
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.283, -98.600
Hail, Valley
- When
- June 12, 3:15 AM CST
- Where
- Valley County, Ord
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.600, -98.933
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
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 11 to 12, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 11, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Heat in Texas, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 11, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 11, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, June 11 to 12, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, June 11 to 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, June 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: 5262512, 5262513, 5262514, 5262515.