1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 16, 2:15 AM CST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 315 AM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002 SYNOPSIS...NEW CONVECTION HAD RECENTLY DEVELOPED ALONG SERN BORDER IN AREA OF STRONG LOW LEVEL MOISTURE GRADIENT AS SHOWN ON 06Z SFC ANALYSIS AND EVENING H85 UA ANALYSIS. SFC BOUNDRY AT 06Z EXTENDED FROM SERN IA ACROSS NWRN MO AND NERN KS WITH WEAK HIGH OVER ERN NEB. THIS MOISTURE MAKES A RAPID RETURN NORTH TODAY AS CYCLOGENESIS TAKES PLACE OVER THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS AHEAD OF STRONG SHORT WAVE COMING INTO THE NWRN PART OF THE COUNTRY. AVN APPEARS TO HANDLE CURRENT CONVECTION BEST AND WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW AVN IN THIS FORECAST ALTHOUGH NOT THAT MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODELS WITH MAIN SURFACE AND UPPER FEATURES THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. WILL MENTION SCT STORMS FOR THE SERN AREAS THIS MORNING THEN SHIFT CHANCE TO THE NRN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON WHERE BEST MOISTURE ADVECTION INDICATED AS WELL AS H7 WARM ADVECTION. NOT MUCH CHANGE FOR REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM REGARDING TEMPERATURES AND PRECIP WITH TIMING OF COLD FRONT STILL ON TRACK. IN EXTENDED PERIOD...PATTERN REMAINS ACTIVE AS SERIES OF WAVES MOVE THROUGH FAST FLOW WITH RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE WEST BY END OF PERIOD. LITTLE CHANGE TO EXTENDED PORTION OF FORECAST. .OMA...NONE FOBERT
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-161800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMA
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-161801- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 515 AM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG A WARM FRONT EARLY THIS MORNING THAT WAS LOCATED NEAR THE SOUTHEAST BORDER OF NEBRASKA. THE WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT NORTH TODAY AS LOW PRESSURE INTENSIFYS OVER THE WESTERN DAKOTAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. SHEAR PROFILES AND STRONG INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW FOR THE POSSIBLITY OF TORNADOS AS WELL AS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE AREA IS MAINLY NORTH OF A NELIGH TO HARLAN IOWA LINE. LATER TONIGHT...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP INTO THE AREA AND MAY TRIGGER MORE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. SOME STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN HAZARDS. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATIC INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/OAX OR AT WEATHER.GOV (LOWER CASE). FOBERT
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-161801- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMA
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-161800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 805 AM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED NORTH OF A WARM FRONT. THESE STORMS WILL MAINLY BE ALONG AND NORTH OF A PRIMROSE TO BEATRICE LINE. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT NORTH TODAY AS LOW PRESSURE INTENSIFIES OVER THE WESTERN DAKOTAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. SHEAR PROFILES AND STRONG INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES AS WELL AS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE AREA WILL BE MAINLY NORTH OF A NELIGH TO HARLAN IOWA LINE. LATER TONIGHT...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP INTO THE AREA AND MAY TRIGGER MORE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. SOME STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN HAZARDS. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATIC INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/OAX OR AT WEATHER.GOV (LOWER CASE). FOBERT/ZAPOTOCNY
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-161800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMA
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:14 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail of around 2.75 inches in diameter was reported 1 mile west of Monroe and up to 4.5 inches in diameter in the town of Monroe.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 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: 5314999.