Nebraska, 2001

Hail in Nebraska, May 10, 2001

May 10, 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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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
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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 May 10, 2:15 PM MST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:15 PM MST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
315 PM MDT THU MAY 10 2001

OTHER THAN DVLPG CU OVER NRN CWA AND NR CYS...NOT MUCH GOING
ON CURRENTLY.  APPEARS THAT THERE WAS MORE SUBSIDENCE THAN
EXPECTED BHND WK SHRTWV TROF THAT EXITED AREA DURG THE MORNING.
SHOULD STILL SEE SOME TSTM DEVELOPMENT LATE THIS AFTN THROUGH
THE EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALG SE WY BORDER AND NEBRASKA PNHNDL.
THIS DUE TO STGR SHRTWV TROF MOVG OUT OF ERN MT INTO THE NRN
PLAINS TNGT WHICH GIVES CDFNT OVER NRN CWA NOW A PUSH TO THE S.
SFC LOW INVOF OF CYS CAUSING WINDS/DEWPTS TO GO ALL OVER THE
PLACE...TRYING TO MIX BONE DRY AIR IN FROM W OF THE MTNS WITH
MORE MOIST AIR TO THE E.  WILL GO 20-30 PERCENT POPS TNGT ALG
AND E OF I-25...ISOLD AT MOST RWL/LAR AREAS.  MAIN COOLING BHND
FNT WILL END UP BEING JUST TNGT AS SFC WINDS TURN BACK TO SSE
FRI AFTN.  A LIMITED AMT OF MSTR AND INSTABILITY RETURN TO THE
SE PTN OF CWA LATE FRI AND FRI EVENING...AND WILL CONT TO
INCLUDE ISOLD TSTMS.  UPPER RIDGE BUILDS STGLY INTO RCKYS LATER
FRI AND THE WEEKEND FOR DRY AND WARMER WX.  MINOR TEMP/POP CHGS.

EXTENDED...UPR LVL RDG RMNS OVR CWA SUN...BUT GETS FLATTENED MONDAY
BY LOW TOPPING THE RDG IN CANADA. SHORT WAVE TROF MOVES THRU MT/ERN
WY TUESDAY WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH THRU THE STATE. BY
MIDWEEK...THE UPR LVL RIDGE AMPLIFIES THRU THE GREAT BASIN. AT THE
SFC...LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENS IN THE NRN GREAT BASIN WITH MRF
CONTG TO SHOW UPSLOPE FLOW OVR CWA. COOLER TEMPS FORECAST FOR DAYS 6
AND 7 WITH A BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS.

.CYS...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dawes

When
May 10, 5:39 PM MST to 5:43 PM MST
Where
Dawes County, Whitney
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
42.783, -103.250

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

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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: 5241257.