Name: Hail in Nebraska, August 12, 2002
Start: 2002-08-12T01:00
End: 2002-08-12T01:00
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
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Wind
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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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 12:54 AM CST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 12:54 AM CST, 6 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
154 AM CDT MON AUG 12 2002

SFC/UA ANALYSIS SHOW STG UPR TROF FOR AUG STANDARDS WRAPPING UP ACRS
SC CANADA. IMPRESSIVE POST FNTL ISALLOBARIC SURGE FM NE PANHANDLE
INTO SRN SD ATTM WITH 3HR PRES RISES OF 5MB AND SFC GRADIENT WIND
GUSTS TO ABT 30 MPH ON AVERAGE. CONVN ALG COLD FNT HAVING A DIFFICULT
TIME DVLPG SWWD WITH OTHER ELEVATED STORMS FURTHER E BUT ON THE WAY
OUT. OUTFLW INDUCED CHANNELING INADV OF STORM ALG COLD FNT SE OF
ORD SHLD CONTINUE TO TRACK SE. WOULD STILL THINK ADDNL STORMS MAY
FIRE FM BBW TO LBF AS THAT AREA NOT WORKED OVR BY PRIOR CONVN...BUT
AS YET SEE NO INDICATION EVEN THOUGH VWP OUT OF GLD SHOWING STG LL
WAA CONTINUES AHD OF BNDRY AND EXISTING ELEVATED CAPE LYR ON 00Z LBF
SNDG NOT TO MENTION WRN EXTENT OF OUTFLW CLOSE TO MERGING WITH FRONT.

MAIN DIFFICULTIES THIS AM ARE NEED AND SUBSEQUENT PLACEMENT OF POPS
TDA AND ANOMALOUS TEMPS TIL WED. WILL MONITOR RADAR/SAT TRENDS TIL
ZONE ISSUANCE BFR MAKING FINAL DETERMINATION ON TDAS POP. TEMPS AN
ENTIRELY SEPARATE ISSUE AND TROUBLING. INITIAL CAA SURGE IMPRESSIVE
FOR SURE BUT MINORS OUT BY AFTN WITH ENOUGH MIXING TO FVR WARMER
NUMBERS EVEN UNDER EXTENSIVE MID CLD CVR. TONIGHT...SUBSIDENCE
INDUCED CLRG LINE TO PROGRESS SEWD THRU CWFA IN BEHIND SECONDARY
UPSTREAM TROF. THIS AND BLDG SFC RIDGE SHLD RESULT IN CHILLY AUG
NIGHT. WAA THEN TO ENSUE BY TUE AFTN AS UPR TROF BEGINS TO PULL EWD.
WARMING TREND THEN ON TAP INTO THE WEEKEND AHD OF NXT POWER-HOUSE
TROF DROPPING OUT OF CANADA.

.GID...NONE.

TEH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 11, 8:07 PM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
907 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0829 PM    2 W WILSONVILLE           NE   .75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   FURNAS                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0835 PM    7 W ELYRIA                NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   VALLEY                         NICKEL TO GOLFBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

07

Local storm report, Aug 11, 8:46 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
946 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0920 PM    5 N ARCADIA               NE   .88 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   VALLEY                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0941 PM    ARCADIA                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   VALLEY                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

07

Local storm report, Aug 11, 9:18 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1018 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1016 PM    6 W PHILLIPSBURG          KS   1 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   PHILLIPS                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 11, 9:46 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1046 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1034 PM    3 SE BOELUS               NE   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/11/02   HOWARD                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Aug 11, 10:21 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1121 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1050 PM    ATHOL                     KS   .75 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   SMITH                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

1110 PM    SMITH CENTER              KS   1 INCH HAIL
08/11/02   SMITH                          REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

Local storm report, Aug 11, 10:40 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1140 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1120 PM    SMITH CENTER              KS   WIND DAMAGE
08/11/02   SMITH                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:00 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Howard

When: August 12, 1:00 AM CST
Where: Howard County, 3 mi E of Farwell
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.217, -98.583

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

More

Every storm in Nebraska in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, August 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: 5314858.