Hail, Kimball
- When
- July 29, 10:45 AM MST to 10:49 AM MST
- Where
- Kimball County, Bushnell
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.233, -103.900
Hail in Nebraska, July 29, 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 2:30 AM MST, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 2:30 AM MST, 8 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 330 AM MDT TUE JUL 29 2003 SHORT TERM...FEW SHOWERS LINGERING IN NORTH AND WEST PORTIONS OF THE CWA ATTM AS UPPER FEATURE DRIFTS THRU THE AREA THIS MORNING. AREAS OF LOW CLOUDS AND FOG SHOULD ALSO DEVELOP WITH DEWPOINT TEMPS IN THE MID 50S TO LOWER 60S. COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE THRU THE CWA BY THIS AFTERNOON WITH MODELS SHOWING ONLY WEAK UPPER FEATURE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY AND UPSLOPE MOISTURE SHOULD INITIATE CONVECTION EARLY TODAY HOWEVER. WENT FAIRLY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE HIGHS TODAY. TONIGHT...THE CONVECTION SHOULD DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES LINGERING OVERNIGHT. LOWS WILL BE MAINLY IN THE 50S. LONG TERM...UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO CONTROL THE WEATHER OVER THE AREA. THIS UPPER HIGH REMAINS OVER THE GREAT BASIN THROUGH THURSDAY. IN THIS LOCATION MOST PRECIPITATION WILL REMAIN SOUTH OF WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN SLIGHTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE VALUES. LOW TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RANGE NEAR NORMAL. ISOLATED AFTERNOON CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE COLORADO STATE LINE. THE REST OF THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN DRY. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY WILL SEE THE UPPER HIGH SLOWLY SHIFT FROM THE GREAT BASIN TO THE VICINITY OF LUBBOCK TEXAS BY MONDAY. THIS SHIFT TO THE EAST AND SOUTH WILL ALLOW MID AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO PUSH INTO SOUTHERN WYOMING ON SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW. A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES IN THE FLOW WILL TRIGGER PRECIPITATION OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THIS WEEKEND AND INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. OROGRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT IS LIKELY ON WESTERN SLOPES. .CYS... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. STARK/COPLEY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 9:33 AM MST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-301200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1033 AM MDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING AND THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH SOUTHERN WYOMING AND WESTERN NEBRASKA THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY MID EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY DRY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ABUNDANT PACIFIC MOISTURE WILL BE AVAILABLE AND OROGRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY ESPECIALLY ON WESTERN SLOPES. LOCALLY HEAVY OR PERSISTENT RAINFALL MAY GENERATE LOCALIZED FLOODING OVER THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. DCC/KMD
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:46 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
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 29, 2003
- Heat in Nevada, July 29, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 29 to 30, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 29, 2003
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 29, 2003
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 29, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 29, 2003
- Heavy Rain in California, July 29, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 29, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 29, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 29, 2003
- Flash Flood in Arizona, July 29, 2003
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 2003
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: 5368847.