Name: Hail in Nebraska, August 23, 2002
Start: 2002-08-23T17:33
End: 2002-08-23T17:33
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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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 23, 1:45 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 1:45 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
245 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2002

...FORECAST CONCERN CONTINUES TO BE RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT AND
SATURDAY...

SURFACE ANALYSIS HAD FRONT FROM JUST SOUTH OF MCI SOUTHWARD ALONG
SOUTHERN KANSAS. DEWPOINTS NOT QUITE AS HIGH AS YESTERDAY ACROSS
THE CWA BUT STILL AROUND 70 IN THE EASTERN PART. VISIBLE SATELLITE
SHOWING OLD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IN EASTERN PART OF CWA STRETCHING
BACK TO THE NW. IN THE UPPER LEVELS...SHORTWAVE THAT TRIGGERED LAST
NIGHTS CONVECTION HAS MOVED EAST. UPPER LOW STILL SITTING AND
SPINNING OVER ERN OREGON WHILE WATER VAPOR IMAGERY HAS PACIFIC
MOISTURE CONNECTION STREAMING INTO NEB/KS ALONG A FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE
JET WITH 90 KTS AT 250 MB EARLIER.

MAIN ACTION SHOULD GET UNDERWAY LATER TONIGHT WITH APPROACHING
SHORTWAVE NOW CROSSING NEVADA. BOTH ETA AND AVN PUT US UNDER LEFT
EXIT REGION OF JET INTO SATURDAY. DIVERGENCE FIELDS BEAR THIS OUT
AS DO OMEGA FIELDS WITH 6 TO 10 MIRCOBARS PER SECOND OF LIFT OVER
GRI BETWEEN 6 AND 18Z. MOST OF THIS DUE TO UPPER FORCING AS LOW
LEVEL WARM ADVECTION MINIMAL. LOW LEVEL JET OF 35 KTS EXPECTED OVER
WRN KANSAS TO HELP SUSTAIN ANY MCS THAT ROLLS OFF THE HIGH PLAINS.
CORFIDI VECTORS AND 700-300 THICKNESSES WOULD POINT TO AN ESE
MOVEMENT AT A DECENT RATE. THETA E RIDGE LOOKS TO REMAIN SOUTHWEST
OF CWA.  IDEA OF MCS ROLLING ACROSS THE SW PART OF THE FORECAST AREA
LATER TONIGHT STILL SEEMS TO BE ON TRACK. HOWEVER PLAN TO HAVE POPS
ACROSS ALL OF CWA WITH NUMBERS INCREASING NE TO SW. WHILE HEAVY RAIN
A POSSIBILITY...WONT MENTION IN ZONES DUE TO SPEED OF SYSTEM AND
UNCERTAINTY OF PATH.

NEXT QUESTION IS HOW LONG TO LINGER PRECIP ON SATURDAY. GIVEN
EXPECTED MOVEMENT OF MCS WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR THINGS OUT NW TO SE
AS DAYS WEARS ON.  REST OF WEEKEND SHOULD BE DRY. TEMPS MAY RECOVER
INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S WITH PLENTY OF AUGUST SUNSHINE. FOR
LATER ON...WILL GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE CHANCE OF RAIN TUES NIGHT INTO
WED AS CANADIAN WAVE DROPS A COLD FRONT INTO CENTRAL PLAINS.

.GID...NONE.

EWALD

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Valley

When: August 23, 5:33 PM CST
Where: Valley County, 5 mi E of Elyria
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.683, -98.917

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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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: 5314881.