Hail in Nebraska, May 6, 2002

Name: Hail in Nebraska, May 6, 2002
Start: 2002-05-06T04:25
End: 2002-05-06T04:25
Location: Nebraska

May 6, 2002 · NWS OAX · 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.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

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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 6, 2:20 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:20 AM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
320 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002

FORECAST CONCERNS ARE END OF AM CONVECTION/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES
TONIGHT AND TEMPS

AS OF 08Z CURRENT CONVECTION FOCUSING ON NOSE OF 850MB JET ACROSS
SRN ZONES.  WARM FRONT OVR NRN KS BEING REINFORCED FROM OUTFLOW.
SVR STORMS UNDERWAY ACROSS SRN ZONES WITH HAIL AS MAIN THREAT.
CDFNT CURRENTLY  LOCATED ARCROSS SD.  SFC LO SITUATED OVR ERN CO MAY
MOVE ALONG SFC TROF INTO KS AND SPC THINKING CDFNT MAY MERGE
INTO LOW TODAY. SEE SWODY1 FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON POSSIBLE NOCTURNAL
MCS OVR SERN NEB TONIGHT.  CHANCE POPS APPEAR REASONABLE WITH CAP AS
LIMITING FACTOR. GOING FORECAST LOOKS GOOD WITH TEMPS CLOSE TO
GUIDANCE VALUES THRU TONIGHT.

PRECIP CONTINUES INTO TUESDAY WITH A LARGE RANGE IN TEMPS.  A
POSSIBLE 20 DEGREE SPREAD THROUGHOUT AREA.  AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK
AGAIN FOR TUESDAY.  WL CONT MENTION OF PRECIP INTO WEDNESDAY WITH
UPPER LEVEL TROF KICKING THRU AREA. HI PRES BUILDS INTO REGION AFTER
THIS AND CAA CAUSES HAVOC ON TEMPS.  THU LOOKS TO BE FIRST FULL DRY
DAY WITH HI PRES IN CONTROL.  AREA UNDER RETURN FLOW ON FRIDAY AND
TEMPS SHOULD START RECOVERING WITH MOISTURE INCREASING.

LITTLE CHANGES FOR EXTENDED.

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.
GRIFFIS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 12:37 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
137 AM CDT MON MAY 06 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0539 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0545 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER AT 15TH AND
                                          CORBY.

0550 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY MEDIA AT
                                          50TH AND IZARD.

0551 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY MEDIA AT
                                          78TH AND DODGE.

0551 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY MEDIA AT
                                          4OTH AND HAMILTON.

0552 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY MEDIA AT
                                          104TH AND VALLEY.

0552 PM    OMAHA                     NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   DOUGLAS                        REPORTED BY MEDIA AT
                                          61ST AND DODGE.

0602 PM    COUNCIL BLUFFS            IA   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   POTTAWATTAMIE                  REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER 4 MILES NORTH
                                          OF JUNCTION HWYS 6 AND
                                          192.

0640 PM    1 NE WAVERLY              NE   .88 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   LANCASTER                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0652 PM    5 NW HALLAM               NE   .88 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   LANCASTER                      HEAVY ACCUMULATION OF
                                          HAIL REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0653 PM    1 NW MARTELL              NE   56 MPH TSTM GUST
05/05/02   LANCASTER                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0709 PM    PLATTE CENTER             NE   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   PLATTE                         REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0717 PM    2 S COUNCIL BLUFFS        IA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   POTTAWATTAMIE                  AT INTERSECTION HWYS 6
                                          AND I80 REPORTED BY
                                          MEDIA.

0720 PM    PLATTE CENTER             NE   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   PLATTE                         65 MPH THUNDERSTORM
                                          WINDS REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0730 PM    CLARKSON                  NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   COLFAX                         EVENT DURATION 10
                                          MINUTES. ESTIMATED
                                          THUNDERSTORM WIND OF 60
                                          MPH REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0730 PM    5 NW ASHLAND              NE   54 MPH TSTM GUST
05/05/02   SAUNDERS                       EVENT DURATION 5
                                          MINUTES. REPORTED BY
                                          HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

0735 PM    CLARKSON                  NE   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   COLFAX                         SIDING AND EXTENSIVE
                                          WINDOW DAMAGE REPORTED
                                          BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

0740 PM    HOWELLS                   NE   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0740 PM    CLARKSON                  NE   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0751 PM    PLATTSMOUTH               NE   WIND DAMAGE
05/05/02   CASS                           THIRTY FOOT TREE BLOWN
                                          DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0753 PM    7 NW PLATTSMOUTH          NE   51 MPH TSTM GUST
05/05/02   CASS                           REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0759 PM    BEEMER                    NE   .75 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   CUMING                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0815 PM    MACY                      NE   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   THURSTON                       TREE DAMAGE REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0815 PM    ROSALIE                   NE   1 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   THURSTON                       TREE DAMAGE REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0818 PM    1 SW FREMONT              NE   55 MPH TSTM GUST
05/05/02   DODGE                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0820 PM    3 S COUNCIL BLUFFS        IA   50-60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/05/02   POTTAWATTAMIE                  REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0838 PM    CASTANA                   IA   .88 INCH HAIL
05/05/02   MONONA                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Nemaha

When: May 6, 4:25 AM CST
Where: Nemaha County, 1 mi N of Johnson
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 40.433, -96.000

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

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: 5299580.