Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 2002

Name: Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 2002
Start: 2002-05-22T02:50
End: 2002-05-22T02:50
Location: Nebraska

May 22, 2002 · NWS LBF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 21, 4:45 PM CST, 10 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 4:45 PM CST, 10 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
545 PM CDT TUE MAY 21 2002

UPGRADED ADZY TO HIGH WIND WARNING FOR WRN HALF OF FCST AREA.

LATEST INDICATIONS ARE THE STG PGF IS SPREADING EAST SLIGHTLY.  MODEL
SUGGESTS 800 MB WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 70KT BY 03Z ACROSS ERN ZONES.

KANW SHOWED 40 MPH SUSTAINED WIND AT 510 PM CDT AND 43 MPH AT 530.

I MAY HAVE TO UPGRADE REST OF ADZY TO HIGH WIND WARNING BY 6 PM CDT.

.LBF...HIGH WIND WARNING TIL 9PM...NEZ004-005-022>025-035>037-
       056>059-069>071-094
       WIND ADZY TONGIHT...NEZ006>010-026>029-038

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The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 166 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:48 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Boyd

When: May 22, 2:50 AM CST
Where: Boyd County, Naper
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.967, -99.083

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, May 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: 5289218.