1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 1:40 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 240 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002 COLD FRONT AND UPPER TROUGH SHOULD BRING A GOOD CHANCE FOR MUCH NEEDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND A BREAK IN THE VERY HOT CONDITIONS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TNGT. POST FRONTAL RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ENHANCED BY UVV FROM TRALING SHORTWAVE MODELS MOVE THROUGH AREA TNGT. BASED ON MODEL TRENDS CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND FEW TSTMS LINGERING IN SE NEB AND SW IA MON MRNG. THEN MAINLY DRY MONDAY AFTN THRU TUE. MANY TEMPS BEHIND FNT HOLDING IN THE 70S WITH CLOUDINESS AND COOL AIR ADVECTION. AFTER MRNG CLOUDINESS SHOULD SEE SOME BREAKS DVLP MON AFTN. STILL SOME AREAS ON NE NEB AND W CNTRL IA MAY NOT GET MUCH ABOVE 80 FOR HIGHS ON MON AFTER FALLING BACK INTO 60S TNGT. OTHERWISE BELIEVE LOWER AND MID 80S WILL COVER MOST MAX TEMPS MONDAY. NEXT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS MAY DEVLOP LATE TUE NITE OR MORE LIKELY WED AS SOME SHORTWAVE ENERGY COMES OVER TOP OF RIDGE COMBINED WITH LOW LEVEL WARM AIR ADVECTION. CONFIDENCE AS TO RISK AND TIMING OF ADDITIONAL CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND TSTMS DECREASES WITH TIME INTO EXTENDED PERIODS. SHORTWAVE AVN DEVLOPES WY/NRN CO AREA AT 25/06Z SUSPECT ALONG WITH DEEPING LOWER LEVEL LOW. THIS SEEMS TO BE A RATHER CONSISTENT PROBLEM WITH AVN THIS SUMMER SEASON. FOR NOW WILL DISREGARD THIS AND KEEP THU MAINLY DRY AND RETAIN CHANCES FOR TSTMS ON FRI AND SAT. BASED ON MRF WILL TOWARD MAINLY DRY FORECAST AT THIS TIME ON SUN DAY 7. .OMA...NONE WIESE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION EVENT TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
509 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0440 PM BATTLE CREEK NE .88 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 MADISON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
511 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM LAUREL NE .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
533 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0451 PM NORFOLK NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/21/02 MADISON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
557 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
520 PM 11 NW STANTON NE .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 STANTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
525 PM 5 S WINSIDE NE 1 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 WAYNE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
624 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
536 PM 1 E MACY NE .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 THURSTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
600 PM 7 SW WHITING IA .75 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 MONONA REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
630 PM CDT SUN JUL 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
420 PM 6 ENE MCLEAN NE 1 INCH HAIL
07/21/02 PIERCE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The Omaha radar (KOAX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:31 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An apparent microburst caused extensive wind in Minden. Three foot diameter trees were uprooted, power lines were downed and sporadic damage to siding was done to a few houses.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 2002
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: 5309213.