Hail, Franklin
- When
- August 19, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County, Upland
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.317, -98.900
Hail in Nebraska, August 19, 2003
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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 1:15 PM CST, 8 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:15 PM CST, 8 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 215 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 2003 VIGOROUS UPPER LOW OVER NORTHWESTERN NEBRASKA ON THE MOVE THIS AFTERNOON. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT CONVECTION FIRING OVER DDC CWA WILL PROPAGATE NORTHEAST THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND AFFECT POINTS ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. 2ND ROUND OF STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LOW SHOULD ROLL IN FROM THE WEST LATE TONIGHT AND LINGER INTO TOMORROW MORNING. FURTHER...EFFECTIVE FRONT/TROF WILL SLIDE SOUTHEAST BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL STORMS OVER THE KANSAS COUNTIES AND THE FAR SE NEBRASKA CWA FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. BOTTOM LINE CONCERNING AFOREMENTIONED SCENARIO IS THAT GRIDS/FORECAST WILL CLOSELY FOLLOW THIS REASONING. COOLER AIR WILL FILTER SOUTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...THUS TEMP FORECAST WILL BE REFLECTION OF THIS. AS FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND...TEMPS WILL ONCE AGAIN RISE TO ABOVE CLIMO BEFORE THE NEXT COLD FRONT SLIDES SOUTH LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. AS FOR PCPN CHANCES...CHANCES APPEAR CLOSE TO NIL FROM THURSDAY THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY. HOWEVER...ADVERTISED EARLY NEXT WEEK FROPA WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED IN CASE RETURN FLOW IS ENOUGH TO PROVIDE FOR ISOLATED OPPORTUNITIES FOR STORMS. .GID...NONE. 16
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 7:23 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-201200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 823 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE...REMAIN POSSIBLE TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SLIPS ACROSS THE AREA. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER APPEARS TO HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS AREAS EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. TO THE WEST...THERE IS STILL SOME RISK OF A STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...WHILE MORE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTH INTO PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE MAIN HAZARD FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TONIGHT...WOULD BE HAIL TO SIZE OF PENNIES...AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. INTENSITY AND COVERAGE OF ANY THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY DEVELOP...WILL DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING... AFTER WHICH DRY WEATHER WILL SETTLE INTO THE REGION. THE DRY AND VERY WARM WEATHER IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE RIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. MORITZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 7:56 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
KSZ007-019-NEZ041-048-049-063-064-076-077-086-087-200230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 856 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 2003 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... NANCE...POLK...HAMILTON...YORK...CLAY...FILLMORE...THAYER...NUCKOLLS AND MERRICK COUNTIES. IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION. NNNN MORITZ
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 8:48 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
NEZ039-040-046-047-060>062-072>075-082>085-200315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 948 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 2003 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... GREELEY...VALLEY...SHERMAN...HOWARD...BUFFALO...DAWSON...HALL... ADAMS...GOSPER...KEARNEY...PHELPS...FRANKLIN...WEBSTER...HARLAN AND FURNAS COUNTIES. THOUGH AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS STILL POSSIBLE...MAINLY NORTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 92...THE RISK FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. NNNN MORITZ
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:52 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
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- Damaging Wind in Nevada, August 19, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 19, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 19, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 19, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, August 19, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, August 19, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 19, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 19, 2003
More
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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: 5375321.