Hail, Pottawattamie
- When
- July 25, 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Pottawattamie County, 3 mi NE of Treynor
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.267, -95.583
Hail in Iowa, July 25, 2002
1 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
- 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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 25, 1:45 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:45 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 245 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 FORECAST CONCERNS CONT AROUND PRECIP CHANCES AND TEMPS. SYNOPSIS...ONGING CONVECTION SPREADING ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AIDED BY STRONG SWRLY LLJ. STORMS REACHING SVR LIMITS SO DISCUSSION WL BE BRIEF. LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS AREA OF LO PRES CENTERED OVR CNTL NEB/CNTL SD. WARM FNT EXTENDED FM CNTRL NEB TO JUST N OF OMA. FORECAST...CONSIDERING WMFNT POSITION...HAVE RAISED TEMPS SLIGHTLY FOR TDY. FNT WL SIT ACROSS NEB/KS BORDER TONIGHT. GOOD LIFT INDICATED ALONG FNT WITH AREA UNDER RIGHT REAR QUAD OF UPPER JET. INSTABILITY HIGH SO WL GO WITH 30 POPS SRN ZONES AND TAPER TO 20 NWD. WL CONT POPS INTO FRI & FRI NIGHT AS FNTL BOUNDARY MOVES NWD AND FAST MOVING SHORTWAVE PASS THROUGH THE AREA. OMEGA FIELDS LOOK GOOD SO WL KEEP CHANCE POPS GOING. FOR THE MOST PART...REMAINS AN UNSETTLED PATTERN. FEW MINOR TWEEKS TO EXTENDED. .OMA...NONE. GRIFFIS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 25, 3:10 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
410 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
357 AM MODALE IA .75 INCH HAIL
07/25/02 HARRISON REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Jul 25, 3:47 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
447 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 AM 1 S MACY NE TORNADO
07/25/02 THURSTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:07 AM CST, 53 minutes before
NEZ015-033-044-051-066-251035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 507 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002 ...SOME COUNTIES IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 531 HAVE BEEN REMOVED... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EASTERN NEBRASKA ARE NO LONGER IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 531...THURSTON...CUMING...DODGE... SAUNDERS AND LANCASTER. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED AREA HAS DECREASED.
Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:08 AM CST, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
508 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0422 AM DECATUR NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/25/02 BURT REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0428 AM BLENCOE IA 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/25/02 MONONA REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0455 AM 2 NW LITTLE SIOUX IA 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/25/02 HARRISON REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, Jul 25, 4:40 AM CST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
540 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 AM 1 N COUNCIL BLUFFS IA 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/25/02 POTTAWATTAMIE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:00 AM CST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
600 AM CDT THU JUL 25 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0509 AM SIDNEY IA WIND DAMAGE
07/25/02 FREMONT REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strike in Utah, July 25, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, July 25, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 25 to 26, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 25, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Idaho, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 2002
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: 5309364.