Hail, Cuming
- When
- June 4, 2:45 AM CST
- Where
- Cuming County, 12 mi SW of Beemer
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.817, -96.983
Hail in Nebraska, June 4, 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 Jun 4, 2:45 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:45 AM CST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 345 AM CDT TUE JUN 4 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGES...SHORT TERM TSRA/SHRA...THEN TEMPS. SYNOPSIS...LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS HAD THE SFC FNT N OF FNB AND S OF CNK. -TSRA/-SHRA BLOSSOMED AFT 0230Z...WITH A MULTI CELL LINE FM CERESCO NE THRU VALLEY...MISSOURI VALLEY...WOODBINE...AND EARLING IA. THESE ECHOES QUICKLY MOVED INTO IA AS ANOTHER BATCH OF STORMS MOVED INTO THE FORECAST AREA FM CNTRL NEB. IR STLT/88-D RADAR DEPICTED WHERE THE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES WERE...ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT WAVE TROFS ROTATING AROUND THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRES OVER THE SE US AND MID LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS. 06Z SFC TEMPS OF ETA NOT PICKING UP ON THE GRADIENT IN TEMPS. FCST WAS TO RANGE FM UPR50S TO LOWER 70S AND 06Z METARS HAD MID 50S TO UPR 70S ACRS CWFA. FORECAST...SHORT RANGE MODELS ARE SIMILAR BRINGING THROUGH A MINOR SHORT WAVE TROF EARLY THIS MORNING AND THEN THE STRONGER NORTHERN PLAINS SHORT WAVE TROF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE TROF GETS SHEARED OFF AND RETROGRADES SWWARD TO THE CA BAJA COAST. AT THE SFC...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN AND RMN OVR THE FCST AREA THRU WED NIGHT. AS THIS AREA MOVES OFF TO THE EAST...RETURN FLOW WILL SET UP WITH WARMING TEMPS. UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION/SUPPORT FM RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE JET EXPECTED TO BE MAXIMIZED THIS MORNING AND DRIER CONDITIONS MOVING IN TONIGHT. HIGH TEMPS TODAY A BIT COOLER...GENERALLY UPR 60S TO MID 70S AND LOWS TONIGHT IN THE 50S. THESE READINGS AOA GUIDANCE NUMBERS. WITH FEWER CLOUDS AROUND WED TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO BE SOME 10 DEG WARMER AND WARMER STIL FOR THU AS THE MID LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS IN. EXTENDED...FRI AND BEYOND...RIDGING REMAINS IN THE AREA FRI AND WITH THE APPROACH OF A STG CLOSED LOW BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN FRI NIGHT. SAT NIGHT THRU MON APPEAR STORMY AS THE CLOSED LO TRACKS ACRS THE NRN PLNS. AFTER SOME COOLER DAYS TO START THE WEEK...TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM BACK INTO THE 80S THU-SAT. NEW EXT OF THE AVN MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH THE CLOSED LO. IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS ON THE NEW FORECAST DISCUSSION FORMAT...PLEASE E-MAIL THEM TO W-OAX.WEBMASTER@NOAA.GOV OR CALL DAVE THEOPHILUS AT 402-359-5166. .OMA...NONE. ZAPOTOCNY
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:45 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5303683.