Name: Hail in Nebraska, May 28, 2002
Start: 2002-05-28T12:35
End: 2002-05-28T12:35
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
Cold
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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 1:50 AM CST, 10 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:50 AM CST, 10 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
250 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002

MCS OVER FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING WITH LINE STARTING TO PUSH INTO
IOWA AT 0730Z.  EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO END ACROSS AREA THIS MORNING
AS TROF OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS SHIFTS EAST.  SOME CHANCE OF
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SFC TROF
OVER NRN PLAINS WORKS ITS WAY EAST.  ONLY REAL CHANGE TO GOING
FORECAST WAS TO INCREASE TEMPS FOR TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. REMAINDER
OF FORECAST LEFT PRETTY MUCH ALONE DUE TO ONGOING CONVECTION THIS
MORNING.

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.
FOBERT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 11:50 AM CST, 45 minutes before

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-282300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1250 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT IN
EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND A WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST
OUT OF WYOMING IS MAY BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF NIGHT TIME
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. HOWEVER DUE TO WEAK SHEAR....THESE
STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.  HOWEVER A FEW OF THESE
STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

HEAVY RAINFALL FROM LAST NIGHT HAS PROMPTED FLOOD WARNINGS TO BE
ISSUED FOR THE LITTLE BLUE RIVER AT FAIRBURY AND THE BIG BLUE
RIVER AT BEATRICE.  IF NO ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OCCURS...THE LITTLE
BLUE IS CRESTING NOW AND IS EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE.
THE BIG BLUE IS EXPECTED TO CREST EARLY THIS AFTERNOON JUST ABOVE
FLOOD STAGE.  THE RIVER IS THEN EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FLOOD
STAGE TONIGHT.	FOR BOTH OF THESE RIVERS...LOWLAND FLOODING IS
EXPECTED.

THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER THE AREA WEDNESDAY
AS WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARIES AND INSTABILITY LINGER ACROSS EASTERN
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATIC
INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/OAX OR AT WEATHER.GOV (LOWER CASE).

SMITH

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:34 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jefferson

When: May 28, 12:35 PM CST
Where: Jefferson County, 7 mi NW of Fairbury
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.217, -97.267

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

More

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: 5299660.