Hail in Nebraska, June 23, 2003

Name: Hail in Nebraska, June 23, 2003
Start: 2003-06-23T21:10
End: 2003-06-23T21:13
Location: Nebraska

June 23, 2003 · NWS CYS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
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 Jun 23, 1:00 PM MST, 8 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:00 PM MST, 8 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
200 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

SHORT TERM CONCERNS INVOLVE SEVERE WEATHER CHANCES.  FINALLY SEEING
SOME PRESSURE FALLS WORK INTO RAWLINS AND LARAMIE AREA...BUT
TENDANCIES HAVE BEEN PRETTY MEAGER EAST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE.  COOL
CONDITIONS...AND SCATTERED TO BROKEN AREAS OF CLOUDS HAVE BEEN
HANGING TOUGH EASTERN PART OF FORECAST AREA WHICH MAY BE A
SUBSTANTIAL HINDERANCE TO SEVERE THREAT.  ANOTHER FACTOR WORKING
AGAINST SEVERE WEATHER IS THAT DEWPOINTS IN THE PANHANDLE HAVE NOT
BEEN ABLE TO RESPOND GIVEN THE WIND DIRECTIONS.

FOCUS THEN TURNS TO COLD FRONT OVERNIGHT AND TUESDAY.  LOOKING FOR
PRECIP ALONG AND NORTH OF FRONT...WITH A FAIRLY GOOD TEPMERATURE
GRADIENT ACROSS CWA.

FOR TUE NGT INTO WED...UPR TROF FINALLY SWINGS E ACROSS AREA...WITH
REAL COOL AIR SURGING SWD TUE NGT.  MODELS A BIT QUICKER ON
SURGE...SO THAT MOST OF WED TO BE RATHER COOL.  HAVE EDGED POPS OVER
INTO LIKELY FOR TUE NIGHT INTO WED MRNG...DCRSG TO SCT POPS ON WED
AFTN.  AS UPR TROF WILL BE EAST OF AREA BY 03Z THU...HAVE DECREASED
POPS WED EVENG TO JUST FAR SRN SXNS.  DRY BUT COOL NW FLOW SFC/ALOFT
ON THU.  IN LATER PDS...SOME WAA CLDS ACRS NERN SXNS MAINLY THU NGT.
NEW AVN JUST NOW GETTING IN...THERE MAY BE SOME CLDS ALSO FRI NGT
INTO SAT NRN SXNS AS A WEAK UPR FTR MOVES ACRS THE AREA...WITH SFC
FNT PERHAPS CLIPPING NRN PARTS.  MRF/ECMWF SIMILAR FOR THIS WEEKEND
INTO MON WITH DRY CONDS AS WNW FLOW CONTS WITH MORE SUMMERLIKE TEMPS
RETURNING BY SUN/MON.

.CYS...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 1:55 PM MST, 7 hours 15 minutes before

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-241200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
255 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING AND THE
WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

CLOUDS HAVE PREVENTED THE REGION FROM WARMING UP VERY MUCH...AND SO
THE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO JUST A
SLIGHT CHANCE.

A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE OVER PARTS OF FAR
SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH
GUSTY WINDS COULD STILL OCCUR WITH A FEW STORMS.

EVEN THOUGH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PERSIST WELL INTO THE
NIGHT...THE THREAT OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER 9 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH
THURSDAY.  ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE IN
THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND IN THE VICINITY OF THE WYOMING
NEBRASKA STATE LINE TUESDAY.  COOL UNSETTLED WEATHER IS EXPECTED
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.  DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS WILL RETURN
FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY STILL BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING INTO THE SOUTHERN PART
OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:09 PM MST, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0909 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

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

0852 PM    8 NNE BURNS               WY   1.75 IN HAIL
06/23/03   LARAMIE

MRC

Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:17 PM MST, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0917 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

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

0914 PM    12 SW HARRISBURG          NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/23/03   BANNER

MRC

Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:25 PM MST, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0925 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

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

0913 PM    5 E ALBIN                 NE   1.75 IN HAIL
06/23/03   BANNER                         NUMEROUS WINDOWS OF HOME
                                          BROKEN

MRC

Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:42 PM MST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0942 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

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

0934 PM    12 NNW KIMBALL            NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/23/03   BANNER

MRC

Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:45 PM MST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0945 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

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

0935 PM    12 NW KIMBALL             NE   1.75 IN HAIL
06/23/03   KIMBALL

MRC

Local storm report, Jun 23, 9:09 PM MST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1009 PM MDT MON JUN 23 2003

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

0951 PM    10 NE HARRISBURG          NE   1.75 IN HAIL
06/23/03   BANNER

MRC

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Banner

When: June 23, 9:10 PM MST to 9:13 PM MST
Where: Banner County, 12 mi E of Harrisburg
Measured: 3 in hail
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.550, -103.517

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 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, June 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: 5364152.