Hail, Knox
- When
- July 10, 1:10 AM CST
- Where
- Knox County, 2 mi N of Crofton
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.767, -97.483
Hail in Nebraska, July 10, 2002
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 Jul 9, 2:35 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:35 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 335 PM CDT TUE JUL 9 2002 ...MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS ARE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY...AND TEMPERATURES... CURRENTLY...OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM TSTM CLUSTER WHICH MOVED INTO WRN IA EARLY THIS AFTN HAS PUSHED TO NEAR A YORK...BIE...FNB LINE AND CONTINUES TO SPREAD SWD. THIS HAS GIVEN A LITTLE MORE PUSH TO AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY. CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED ALONG THIS BOUNDARY EAST OF BIE. SHORT TERM...BOUNDARY MAY CONTINUE TO FIRE AND MOVE SOUTH. EXPECT WRN PORTION OF FRONT IN CNTRL NEB TO BECOME ACTIVE THIS EVE OR EARLY TONIGHT IN ADVANCE OF STRONG UPPER WAVE PLUNGING SEWD INTO DKTS. LOW TEMPS STILL FAIRLY WARM DUE TO HIGH SFC DEW POINTS. ON WED TSTMS ARE LIKELY TO MOVE BENERALLY EWD WITH INVERTED TROF. PRECIP COMPLEX WILL PROB LAST WELL INTO THE DAY BEFORE MOVING EWD INTO IOWA...MAKING IT TOUGH TO FORECAST HIGH TEMPS. THERE IS A LESSER CHC FOR MORE TSTMS WED NIGHT INTO EARLY THU AS ANOTHER VORT LOBE COMES AROUND BACKSIDE OF UPPER LOW. MAX TEMPS WILL STILL BE SUPPRESSED BY CLOUD COVER...BUT PERHAPS NOT AS MUCH AS VERY COOL GUID. EXPECT DRY WX TO LAST FROM THUR AFTN THROUGH NEXT TUE AS UPPER LOW EXITS TO OUR EAST AND HEIGHTS BUILD ALOFT. MEANWHILE...INITIALLY COOL SFC HIGH GRADUALLY WARMS UP...GENERALLY IN LINE WITH HPC GUIDANCE. DIURNAL RANGE SHOULD BE ENHANCED BY GENERALLY DRY GROUND. .OMA...NONE. POLLACK
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:09 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 10, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 10, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 10 to 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 10, 2002
- Blizzard in California, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 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: 5309200.