1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Aug 17, 2:30 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 330 AM CDT SAT AUG 17 2002 SYNOPSIS...LINE OF STORMS PUSHING RAPIDLY SE THIS MORNING IN ADVANCE OF COLD FRONT. RADAR INDICATED SRN PORTION OF THE LINE HAVING MORE OF AN EASTERLY MOVEMENT SO WILL HANG ON TO SCT TSTMS FOR SERN BORDER AREA FIRST PART OF THE MORNING. EXPECT FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH SERN COUNTIES BY MID MRNG. MODELS INDICATE FRONT TO HANG UP LATER TODAY ACROSS KANSAS THEN REMAIN NEAR SERN BORDER AREA INTO MONDAY. H85 MOIST AXIS ALSO IN PLACE NEARBY SO WILL CONTINUE SOME POPS FOR SERN ZONES SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...TRENDING MORE TOWARD AVN. REMAINDER OF FORECAST LITTLE CHANGED. .OMA...NONE. FOBERT
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
944 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM 2 1/2 NW ST HELENA NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0825 PM 3 NW ST HELENA NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
950 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 AM 5 NE WYNOT NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
954 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0913 AM MONROE NE 4.5 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 PLATTE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0930 AM 1 W MONROE NE 2.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 PLATTE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0930 AM PLATTE CENTER NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 PLATTE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0930 AM 4 E MANLEY NE .88 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CASS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1040 AM PIERCE NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 PIERCE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1042 AM 5 S DAVID CITY NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
1105 AM CROFTON NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 KNOX HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND, REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
1120 AM CROFTON NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 KNOX REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. EVENT
DURATION 7 MINUTES.
1125 AM HARTINGTON NE .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1130 AM FREMONT NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DODGE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1130 AM FREMONT NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DODGE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1130 AM 5 NE WYNOT NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1132 AM FREMONT NE .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DODGE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1134 AM FREMONT NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 DODGE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1152 AM 2 N GLENWOOD IA .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 MILLS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1155 AM FORDYCE NE .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1201 PM PENDER NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 THURSTON HEAVY RAIN WITH 1.20
INCHES IN LESS THAN AN
HOUR REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1225 PM 1 N MISSOURI VLY IA .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 HARRISON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1225 PM 1 N PENDER NE .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 THURSTON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1255 PM WINNEBAGO NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 THURSTON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0122 PM WYNOT NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE.
0649 PM NIOBRARA NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 KNOX REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0705 PM NIOBRARA NE 2 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 KNOX REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0806 PM 7 N CROFTON NE .88 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 KNOX REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. GAVINS POINT DAM
0810 PM 3 NW ST HELENA NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0825 PM 3 NW ST HELENA NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/16/02 CEDAR REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The Omaha radar (KOAX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:29 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house in Bellevue igniting a fire that caused about $75,000 in damage to the structure and $50,000 damage to its contents.
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: 5313831.