Hail in Nebraska, October 1, 2002

Name: Hail in Nebraska, October 1, 2002
Start: 2002-10-01T09:42
End: 2002-10-01T09:42
Location: Nebraska

October 1, 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.

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Oct 1, 1:45 AM CST, 7 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 1:45 AM CST, 7 hours 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
245 AM CDT TUE OCT 01 2002

FCST CHALLENGES ARE FRONTAL PASSAGE TIMING AND ASSOCIATED PRECIP AND
TEMPERATURE CHALLENGES TODAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK.

SYNOPSIS...
ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN IN PLACE WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT.  NEARLY
STATIONARY SFC BOUNDARY REMAINS FROM KHLC TO KDSM AT 05Z.  SCATTERED
ELEVATED CONVECTION NOW FORMING ON THIS BOUNDARY IN THE SOUTHERN CWA
AS 850MB MOIST FLOW INTERSECTS IT.  SFC DEWPOINTS NOTED AROUND 60
SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY AND MID 40S TO THE NORTH.  EXPECT THIS
CONVECTION TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AS 850MB
WINDS REMAIN BACKED.  TO THE WEST...MAIN UPPER LOWS OVER SRN
MANITOBA AND WASHINGTON WILL DRIVE THE WEATHER PATTERN THE NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS AS THEY EVOLVE/PUSH EAST.  MAIN COLD FRONT AT 05Z IS
FROM KCDR TO KABR.

BOTH ETA AND AVN HOLD OFF THE COLD FROPA UNTIL AROUND 00Z AS NEXT
PIECE OF ENERGY EJECTS FROM THE UPPER LOW TO THE WEST.  THIS PLACES
SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE CWA IN THE WARM SECTOR.  LATE IN THE
AFTERNOON...A SURFACE LOW OVER KS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE
FRONT...HELPING FOCUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF THE AREA.  SOUTHEASTERN HALF MAY ALSO NEED TO BE WATCHED FOR
SEVERE WX DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE IF SUFFICIENT HEATING CAN BE
ATTAINED THIS AFTERNOON.

ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO THE MAIN LOW SHIFTING OUT OF THE FOUR
CORNERS REGION.  ALL MODELS AGREE ON THE SLOW PROGRESSION OF THIS
LOW INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA LATE THURSDAY AND EARLY FRIDAY.    SEVERAL
ROUNDS OF PRECIP ARE INDICATED AS PIECES OF ENERGY EJECT FROM THIS
LOW WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.  STRONG OVERRUNNING AND PLENTY OF UPPER
LEVEL FORCING WILL AID THESE ROUNDS OF PRECIP.  SFC BOUNDARY WILL
REMAIN NEAR THE AREA...IF NOT DIRECTLY OVER IT.
THEREFORE...CONFIDENCE ON DAILY TEMPERATURES IS NOT HIGH...AS PRECIP
AND CLOUD COVER IMPACT THE FORECAST HEAVILY.  IT APPEARS THE CWA
WILL BE ON THE COOL SIDE OF THE BOUNDARY FOR WED AND THU...SO NOT
STRAY FROM CURRENT FORECAST TEMPS.

FLOW ON FRIDAY FINALLY SWEEPS THIS SYSTEM EAST AND ENDS PRECIP
CHANCES...UNTIL NEXT SIGNIFICANT WAVE DROPS INTO THE AREA
SATURDAY.

.OMA...NONE
ERVIN

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 10:35 AM CST, 23 hours 7 minutes before

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-302300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1135 AM CDT MON SEP 30 2002

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED ACROSS
EASTERN NEBRASKA OR SOUTHWEST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

WARM AND RELATIVELY DRY SOUTHWEST WINDS SPREADING ACROSS NEBRASKA
WILL LIKELY PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE AREA
THIS AFTERNOON. SOME MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD NORTH TONIGHT
BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO MAINLY SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
AND SOUTHWEST IOWA LATE. IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP...A FEW
COULD CONTAIN HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT COVERAGE AND CHANCES
APPEAR LOW AND THUS SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED.

MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH ACROSS PARTS OF NEBRASKA AND
IOWA ON TUESDAY...AND A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO EAST CENTRAL
NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA BY AFTERNOON. CONVERGENCE ALONG
THE FRONT AND INCREASED INSTABILITY COULD ALLOW FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT BY LATE AFTERNOON. AT THIS TIME...THE
AREA MOST AT RISK APPEARS TO BE ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE
FROM LINCOLN TO OMAHA. LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WOULD BE THE
MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ON TUESDAY.

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)

***PLEASE NOTE***
THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ISSUED BY WFO OMAHA/VALLEY WILL
BE SENT USING A DIFFERENT IDENTIFIER STARTING OCTOBER 1, 2002.
THE NEW IDENTIFIER IS...

   WMO HEADING...	FLUS43 KOAX
   AWIPS ID......	HWOOAX

THE NEW IDENTIFIER IS RESERVED FOR THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
ONLY.

CHERMOK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 1, 7:28 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Douglas

When: October 1, 9:42 AM CST
Where: Douglas County, Omaha
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.267, -96.000

Reported near 132nd and Maple.

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, October 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5318851.