Hail in Nebraska, August 22, 2002

Name: Hail in Nebraska, August 22, 2002
Start: 2002-08-22T20:42
End: 2002-08-22T20:42
Location: Nebraska

August 22, 2002 · NWS OAX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 22, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
255 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

...MAIN CHALLENGE IS POPS/HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT...THEN POPS SATURDAY...

ON THE 19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS...THE PRIMARY SYNOPTIC SCALE
QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM A WEAK LOW OVER NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF IOWA.  HOWEVER THE 1931
VISIBLE IMAGE SHOWS A SUBTLE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE EARLY MORNING
CONVECTION FROM BETWEEN LINCOLN AND BEATRICE TO JUST SOUTH OF
HASTINGS.  BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE CONTINUES TO INCREASE OVER THE
CWFA...WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 70S NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
COUNTIES AND MID 70S IN SOUTHERN COUNTIES.  VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWS
PLENTY OF SUNSHINE RESULTING IN TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S...EVEN 90 IN
BEATRICE.  19Z LAPS CAPE VALUES RANGE FROM 2000 J/KG NORTH TO 4000
J/KG SOUTH.

AT 500 MB...SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR WILL BE ADVECTING INTO NEBRASKA WITH
WEAK SHORTWAVE SEEN ON WATERVAPOR LOOP OVER COLORADO.  THIS COOLER
AIR AND VORT MAX WILL HELP TO STEEPEN LAPSE RATES...AND INCREASE
VERTICAL MOTION THIS EVENING.  CONVECTIVE INITIATION WILL LIKELY
OCCUR WITH THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OR JUST NORTHEAST OF THE SURFACE
LOW...BUT CONFIDENCE IN EXACT LOCATION IS LOW. SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
APPEARS TO HAVE THE BEST SHOT.

INGREDIENTS REMAIN IN PLACE FOR HEAVY RAIN WITH SLOW MOVING CELLS.
SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE PLUME STILL NOSING INTO SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA...AND BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE QUITE HIGH.  ONLY MISSING
ELEMENT MAY BE THE LOW LEVEL JET...WHICH THE MODELS KEEP FAIRLY WEAK
AND MOSTLY TO OUR SOUTH.  HOWEVER LAST NIGHT THE LOW LEVEL JET
REACHED 45-50 KNOTS...WHICH WAS MUCH HIGHER THAN PROGGED.  THUS
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF AT LEAST A 35 KNOT LOW LEVEL JET FORMS AND
CATCHES THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEBRASKA...WHICH WOULD REALLY
INCREASE ISENTROPIC LIFT ABOVE THE FRONT.  SO WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND MENTION HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT.  EARLY THIS
MORNING THERE WAS A 10-20 MILE WIDE BAND OF 3+ INCHES OF RAIN FROM
AROUND LINCOLN TO SHENANDOAH IOWA...BUT DIFFICULT TO SAY IF ANOTHER
HEAVY RAIN BAND WILL SET UP OVER THE SAME NARROW AREA.

INTERESTING CHANGES IN MOST OF THE MODELS FOR SATURDAY.  EVEN THE
CANADIAN MODEL IS VERY SIMILAR TO AVN/ETA WITH BRINGING A SHORTWAVE
THROUGH THE NORTHERN STREAM AND CUTTING INTO THE BROAD UPPER RIDGE.
THE MODEL QPF IS HIGH FOR THE PLAINS ON SATURDAY FROM THIS FEATURE.
THE FACT THAT THE MODELS DEVELOP CONVECTION LOOKS REASONABLE...BUT
THE AREAL COVERAGE OFTEN IS CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN PROGGED WITH
THESE NORTHWEST FLOW MCS EVENTS.  THUS WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE OR
CHANCE POPS FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING...BUT IT MAY BE TOO
EARLY TO TELL HOW WIDESPREAD THE MCS WILL BE.

BEYOND SATURDAY THE MODEL SOLUTIONS VARY GREATLY WITH NO CLEAR
FEATURE TO KEY ON.  HOWEVER ENSEMBLE MEAN STILL HINTS AT A NW FLOW
WAVE ON WEDNESDAY WHICH COULD AFFECT THE AREA...SO WILL KEEP GOING
POPS FOR WEDNESDAY.

.OMA...NONE.

NIETFELD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 5:46 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
646 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

642 PM     9 NW ALBION               NE   1 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   BOONE                          REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER. EVENT
                                          DURATION 5 MINUTES.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 5:59 PM CST, 2 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
659 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

653 PM     5 N ALBION                NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   BOONE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:04 PM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
704 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

0653 PM    5 N ALBION                NE   1.25 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   BOONE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0658 PM    5 N ALBION                NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   BOONE                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 7:09 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
809 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

0755 PM    2 NE NEWMAN GROVE         NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   MADISON                        HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND AND GUSTS                                           TO 60 MPH REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 7:28 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
828 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

825 PM    MADISON                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   MADISON                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 22, 7:55 PM CST, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
855 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002

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

830 PM     5 S STANTON               NE   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/22/02   STANTON                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:41 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Washington

When: August 22, 8:42 PM CST
Where: Washington County, 2 mi S of Ft Calhoun
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.433, -96.033

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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: 5315200.