2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 5, 1:32 AM MST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 332 AM CDT SAT JUL 5 2003 RADAR RELATIVELY QUIET ATTM EXCEPT FOR BOUNDARIES FLYING SOUTH BEHIND EARLIER SVR CONVECTION. MODERATELY WESTERLY FLOW CONTINUES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS INTO NORTHERN CWA AS THIS AREA SQUEEZED BETWEEN LOWS OVER CENTRAL CANADA AND STRONG RIDGE OVER DESERT SW. WATER VAPOR SHOWING SERIES OF WAVES MOVING IN SOUTHERN EDGE OF THIS FLOW...LINED UP FROM WESTERN SD BACK TO COAST OF OREGON. THESE WAVES...LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES/FRONT AND SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE THREAT OF CONVECTION NEXT FEW DAYS. CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS SEEMS TO HAVE FRONT FROM WC KS INTO SE NEB...WITH MAIN LOW OVER SE CO AND NEW LOW IN SW PANHANDLE. SEEMS AS STRONGER NORTHERN VORT MOVING OUT OF E/WY LATE THIS MORNING WILL SUPPORT MODELS MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY BACK NORTH INTO SOUTHERN FA...AS SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW INCREASES. MOISTURE POOLING NORTH OF FRONT EVIDENCED BY DP IN THE UPPER 60S/70 OVER SOUTHERN FA. CONVECTION SHOULD INITIATE ALONG THIS BOUNDARY OR LEFT OVER OUTFLOW BY EARLY AFTERNOON AS SFC HEATING SHOULD BE STRONG AGAIN TODAY WITH TEMPS REACHING UPPER 80-MID 90S AGAIN. WOULDNT PLACE A BET...BUT EXPECT CONVECTION TO FIRE IN CENTRAL FA WITH HI-RES ETA ALSO SHOWING DRY LINE BULGE INTO SW NE BY AFTERNOON. SHEAR/INSTABILITY STRONG ENOUGH FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTION ESPECIALLY EASTERN FA. MOST ACTION SHOULD END LATE EVENING...AS LOW LEVEL SW JET SHOULD KEEP BEST ACTION TO EAST OF FA...HOWEVER MAY KEEP POPS IN EASTERN FA. SUN STRONGER NORTHERN STREAM WAVE MOVES INTO NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS HELPING TO PUSH SFC LOW AND DRY LINE FARTHER WEST INTO CENTRAL FA BY AFTERNOON. AS NORTHERN WAVE CONTINUES TO MOVE INTO GREAT LAKES SUN NITE COLD FRONT WILL BE PUSHED SOUTH ACROSS FA. WITH MOISTURE POOLING NORTH OF FRONT FOR MONDAY...HENCE CONTINUED POPS THROUGH TUESDAY BEFORE SW RIDGE BUILD INTO CENTRAL PLAINS PUSHING STRONGER FLOW FARTHER NORTH. .LBF...NONE. DP
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-061030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 530 AM CDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM MERRIMAN...IN NORTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY...TO IMPERIAL. WEST OF THIS LINE...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...HOWEVER NONE IS EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. A WEAK SURFACE TROF OF LOW PRESSURE WILL LIFT SLOWLY NORTH AS A WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT THE SAME TIME...THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL PULL OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES INTO THE HIGH PLAINS. AS THE DISTURBANCE...MOVES EAST INTO THE SLIGHT RISK AREA...IT WILL COMBINE WITH DEEP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. SURFACE HEATING WILL DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE FURTHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SHEAR PROFILES IN THE MID LEVELS FAVOR SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WEST OF THE SLIGHT RISK AREA...SOME GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY ARE EXPECTED TO BE ELEVATED IN NATURE. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD COME TO AN END BY LATE EVENING AS THE ATMOSPHERE STABILIZES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ON SUNDAY...ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FIRE IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A SURFACE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN STATIONARY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. THIS BOUNDARY WILL SERVE AS THE FOCAL POINT FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...AS IT INTERACTS WITH DEEP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...AFTERNOON HEATING...AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE AREA. AT THIS TIME...THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EAST OF A LINE FROM CODY...IN NORTH CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY...TO NORTH PLATTE...TO BRADY...IN EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY. WEST OF THIS LINE...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDS INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED SATURDAY AND SUNDAY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. AT THIS TIME...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. CLB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail severely damaged corn crops near the edge of Gordon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 2003
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: 5372476, 5372477.