Nebraska, 2004

Hail in Nebraska, August 3, 2004

August 3, 2004 · NWS CYS · 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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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 1:25 PM MST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 1:25 PM MST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
225 PM MDT TUE AUG 3 2004

.SHORT TERM...SHORTWAVE TROF CONTINUES TO SWEEP ENE PRETTY RAPIDLY
AS EVIDENT IN WV IMAGERY...WITH DRIER AIR INFILTRATING MID-LEVELS
AND SHORTWAVE PASSAGE NOT COINCIDENT WITH PEAK HEATING...FEEL BEST
CHANCE OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL BE FAR ENE PARTS OF CWA...12Z
MODEL RUNS AGREE WITH THIS AS WELL...QUIET TONIGHT WITH ANY
CONVECTION QUICKLY MOVING OUT OF AREA BY MIDNIGHT...SURFACE BOUNDARY
CREEPS BACK INTO EASTERN CWA OVERNIGHT SWINGING SFC WINDS AROUND TO
THE EAST...CANT RULE OUT SOME PATCHY FOG DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF
PANHANDLE OVERNIGHT...FOG/LOW CLOUDS BURNING OFF IN THE MORNING AND
WITH UPSLOPE FLOW...SLIGHTLY COOLER TOMORROW ESPECIALLY NE
PANHANDLE..BEEFED UP POPS TOMORROW AFTERNOON OVER SNOWY AND LARAMIE
RANGE DUE TO STATUS QUO OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS IN THOSE REGIONS.

.LONG TERM...UPPER RIDGE SLOWLY EDGES EAST INTO THE PLAINS THURSDAY
AND FRIDAY WHILE FLATTENING SOME AS SHORTWAVE ENERGY RIDES OVER IT.
WILL KEEP CHANCES FOR MAINLY DIURNAL TYPE CONVECTION GOING AS THESE
WAVES PASS ACROSS AND ACT UPON SOME INSTABILITY.  OVER THE WEEKEND
UPPER LOW MOVES ACROSS SRN CANADA AND DRAGS COLD FRONT S ACROSS THE
CWA BY SUNDAY SO COOLER TEMPS IN THE OFFING FOR THAT TIME ALONG WITH
CONTINUED CHC FOR PCPN.  SFC HIGH BUILDS S ACROSS THE CWA LT SUNDAY
INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WHICH SHOULD DRY OUT THE AIRMASS SO WILL
MAINTAIN A DRY FCST EARLY NEXT WEEK UNDER NW UPPER FLOW.

.CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

DEMKO/RE
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 9:21 AM MST, 7 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1021 AM MDT TUE AUG 3 2004

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-041145-
BANNER-BOX BUTTE-CHEYENNE-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-CONVERSE-DAWES-GOSHEN-
KIMBALL-LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-MORRILL-NIOBRARA-NORTH CARBON-
NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-PINE BLUFFS-PLATTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-SIOUX-
SNOWY RANGE-SOUTHWEST CARBON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLIANCE...CHADRON...CHEYENNE...DOUGLAS...
KIMBALL...LARAMIE...LUSK...RAWLINS...SCOTTSBLUFF...SIDNEY...
TORRINGTON AND WHEATLAND
1021 AM MDT TUE AUG 3 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
STRONG WIND GUSTS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR IN
AND NEAR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL WYOMING.

GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR WIDELY SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE.

STORMS IN WYOMING WILL MAINLY OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON...WHILE
STORMS IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE MAY CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING.

.DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY...THURSDAY AND
SATURDAY. STORMS MAY BE SEVERE OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND
ACROSS NIOBRARA COUNTY WYOMING ON WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY MAINLY FROM CONVERSE AND
NIOBRARA COUNTIES IN WYOMING INTO THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 2:27 PM MST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
327 PM MDT TUE AUG 03 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0253 PM     HAIL             15 W MULE CREEK JUNCTIO 43.38N 104.52W
08/03/2004  1.75 INCH        NIOBRARA           WY   TRAINED SPOTTER

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DEMKO/JLH

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dawes

When
August 3, 5:10 PM MST to 5:14 PM MST
Where
Dawes County, 9 mi SW of Chadron
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
42.733, -103.133

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5421388.