Hail in Nebraska, September 22, 2001

Name: Hail in Nebraska, September 22, 2001
Start: 2001-09-22T04:05
End: 2001-09-22T06:40
Location: Nebraska

September 22, 2001 · NWS GID · 4 events in 3 counties and zones

Early morning thunderstorms brought rain and some hail to a small part of south-central Nebraska. In Clay Center, hail up to one inch in diameter covered the ground for a time.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $25,000
Crop damage: None recorded
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 happened

The episode as NWS GID wrote it up.

Early morning thunderstorms brought rain and some hail to a small part of south-central Nebraska. In Clay Center, hail up to one inch in diameter covered the ground for a time.

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 Sep 22, 2:20 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 2:20 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
320 AM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001

FORECAST CONCERNS ARE TSTMS TODAY...FOLLOWED BY EXTENT OF COOLING
BEHIND FRONT

EVENING ANALYSIS SHOWED A FAIRLY ACTIVE NW FLOW REGIME WITH SEVERAL
EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES.  AN H85 WARM FRONT STRETCHED N/S ACROSS CENTRAL
NEB AND MOIST AXIS OF 10+C H85 DPS REACHED LBF.  AT THE SFC AS OF
06Z...THE SFC BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED FROM SW TO SC NEBRASKA WITH A
SIMILAR MOIST AXIS OF 60F DPS EXTENDING NORTH FROM KS INTO SC NEB.
ELEVATED TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED LAST COUPLE OF HOURS ON NOSE OF 35KT
LLVL JET AND OVERALL COVERAGE HAS INCREASED.  HAIL IS THE PRIMARY
THREAT WITH STORMS WITH SVR WATCH FORTHCOMING.

SCATTERED TSTMS WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH
REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN AS SFC COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY IN SE
MT...APPROACHES CWA.  WILL GO WITH AFTN POPS RANGING FROM 30 NW TO
50 SE.  AFTN TEMPS WILL BE WARM SW WITH HIGHS NR 90...WITH MAXES IN
THE 80S ELSEWHERE...OR GENERALLY NR FWC.  TSTM CHCS WILL CONTINUE
TONIGHT BEFORE FRONT CLEARS CWA.  LATEST SWODY1 OUTLINES SVR THREAT
WITH HAIL/WIND PRIMARY THREATS.

COOLEST AIR ARRIVES SUNDAY AND CAA WILL DROP MAXES SOME 20-25
DEGREES FROM TODAYS.  OVERALL HIGHS IN THE 60S.  HOW COOL TEMPS WILL
BE SUNDAY NIGHT IS A CONCERN...AS WELL AS ANY FROST POTENTIAL IN
NORTHEAST AS 1033MB SFC HIGH BUILDS SE.  ATTM WILL KEEP LOWS IN
UPPER 30S RANGE IN NE COUNTIES AND NOT MENTION FROST....BUT WILL
NEED TO MONITOR.

NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES PLANNED FOR THE EXTENDED.

.GID...NONE.

FAY

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:06 UTC.

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Event by event

4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Clay

When: September 22, 4:05 AM CST
Where: Clay County, Edgar
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.367, -97.967

Hail, Clay

When: September 22, 4:15 AM CST
Where: Clay County, Clay Center
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.533, -98.050

Hail, Hamilton

When: September 22, 4:15 AM CST
Where: Hamilton County, 5 mi E of Stockham
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.717, -97.867

Hail, Fillmore

When: September 22, 6:40 AM CST
Where: Fillmore County, Fairmont
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.633, -97.567

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, September 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: 5269428, 5269429, 5269490, 5269491.