Name: Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2002
Start: 2002-06-12T18:15
End: 2002-06-12T18:20
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $8,000
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 1:43 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:43 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
243 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

...FORECAST CHALLENGE TO BE TEMPERATURES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND
PRECIP CHANCES SAT NIGHT INTO SUN...

UA ANALYSIS/WATER VAPOR SHOWS H5 UPPER LOW OVER NRN ND. SFC BOUNDARY
WLONG WITH AXIS OF H85 DWPTS ABOVE 13C EXTENDS FROM EAR TO OFK AND
HAS PROVIDED SCT THUNDERSTORMS JUST SE OF CWFA THIS AFTN. CU FIELD
BEGINNING TO THICKEN AND TOWERS ARE NOW VSBL INVO ARTHUR AND GRANT
COUNTIES. THIS IS BEING AIDED BY DRYLINE AND SURFACE CONVERGENCE. H5
WAVE NOW PUSHING TOWARD NRN NEBR MAY ALSO PROVIDE A FEW SHOWERS OR
STORMS THIS EVENING.  COVERAGE LOOKS ISOLATED AND WILL WORD SO IN ALL
ZONES THIS EVENING.

THURSDAY...A TRANQUIL DAY AS HIGH PRESURE BUILD IN AND UPPER LOW
DROPS SOUTHEAST THROUGH MINNESOTA. IN DOING SO...COOLER IAR WILL BE
DRAWN INTO NEBR DROP HIGHS INTO THE LOWER AND MID 70S.

TEMPS STILL A BIT BELOW NORMAL FOR FRIDAY IN NW FLOW ALOFT.
BUILDING HEIGHTS FROM RIDGE IN WEST WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO REACH TO
AROUND 80 IN THE WEST.

NEXT CHCNCE FOR PRECIP LOOKS ON TRACK FOR SAT NIGHT INTO SUN.
SHORTWAVE PROGED TO EZECT FROM LOW OFF THE CA COAST THEN ROUND THE
RIDGE INNTO THE CNTRL PLAINS SAT NIGHT INTO SUN. GOOD MOISTURE
RETURN BY SATURDAY AS H85 DWPTS RISE TO AROUND 14C IN THE SOUTHWEST
SAT NIGHT. MOISTURE RETURN IN EARNEST SAT AFTN UP THE WRN HIGH
PLAINS. PREVIOUS FCST FOR SAT NIGHT SUNDAY EVENT LOOKS ON TRACK AND
WILL NOT CHANGE. DID DROP BACK TEMPS A BIT SUN-MON IN ANTICIPATION
OF COOLER H85 TEMPS DRAWN IN BEHIND THE SYSTEM. LOOKS DRY MON-WED
WITH TEMPS WARMING TO THE MID OR UPPER 80S BY WED.

.LBF...NONE.

KAR

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:16 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Custer

When: June 12, 6:15 PM CST to 6:20 PM CST
Where: Custer County, 10 mi NE of Callaway
Measured: 1 in hail
Property damage: $8,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.400, -99.800

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

More

Every storm in Nebraska in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, June 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: 5293756.