1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:00 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 200 PM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004 .DISCUSSION... TSTM CHCS/COVERAGE THIS EVENING...PCPN CHCS TUE AND TEMPERATURES WITH MIDWEEK COOL DOWN FORECAST CHALLENGES THIS FCST PERIOD. SHORT TERM...ATMOSPHERE RECOVERING AFTER DEPARTURE OF MORNING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WITH INSTABILITY AXIS AND 2000-3000 J/KG CAPE EXTENDING SW TO NE ACROSS CWA AHEAD OF CDFNT ESTIMATED AT 19Z FROM NEAR A YKN-ONL-BUB LINE. SOME CU REMAINED ALONG/JUST AHD OF FNT SO WL KEEP SMALL POPS MUCH OF NWRN ZONES EARLY THIS EVENING...BUT MOST OF THE CONVECTION EXPECTED SRN/SWRN ZONES IN BETTER INSTABILITY AND LOW LVL CONVERGENT AREA NR AND S OF LNK. WL WAIT MORE TOWARD LAST MINUTE FOR GRID CONFIGURATION/ZONE WORDING. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FAR NRN ZONES LATER MON AFTN...COOLING IS GRADUAL AND MOSTLY MINIMAL THRU MONDAY AFTN AND A BLEND OF GUIDANCE VALUES/PREV FCST LOOKS GOOD FOR TEMPERATURES. APPEARS IF CONVECTION DVLPS MON AFTN WITH REINFORCING PUSH OF COOL AIR IT WL BE S OF CWA AND WL LEAVE MONDAYS FCST DRY SERN NEBR. PRETTY DRASTIC DIFFERENCES TUESDAY WITH GFS DROPPING A DEEPER AND MORE CLOSED UPR LOW INTO MN...COMPARED TO THE ETA...WITH STRONGER ISENTROPIC LIFT AND A SIGNIFICANT QPF BULLSEYE ACROSS ERN NEBR. MEANWHILE ETA FOCUSES MORE OF THE LIFT AND QPF SW OF CWA WITH MINIMAL POPS. DECIDED TO GENERALLY LEAVE FCST ALONE TUE GOING MORE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WITH SMALL POPS AND ALLOWING TEMPS TO MODERATE MORE SO THAN AN OVERCAST DAY WITH WIDESPREAD RAIN WOULD BRING. AS TROF SHIFTS TWD ERN GREAT LAKES WED/THU UPR FLOW BECOMES MORE MERIDIONAL OVER CNTRL U.S. WITH FALL LIKE 850 MB TEMPS IN LOW/MID SINGLE DIGITS DROPPING INTO PLAINS. TRIMMED TEMPS BACK A DEG OR TWO BUT PREV FCSTS HAD TAKEN MUCH OF THE COOL DOWN INTO ACCOUNT. WK TROF/VORT MAX FCST BY OPERATIONAL GFS AND ECMWF BY 12Z THU CLOSE TO ERN NEBR COULD GENERATE A FEW MORE CLOUDS POSSIBLY KEEPING TEMPS UP A DEG OR TWO INTO THU MORNING. IF THEY LINGER THEY COULD HOLD TEMPS IN 60S ON THU BUT DIDNT GO THAT COOL ATTM. NOR WAS ANY PCPN INCLUDED WITH THIS APPARENT WK SYSTEM. TEMPS SHOULD MODERATE AFT LAST SHORTWV TROF ROTATES ARND ERN U.S. LONGER WAVE TROF IN SAT/SUN PD. DIDNT WARM TEMPS UP QUITE AS QUICKLY AS MEX GUIDANCE. ALSO DID NOT INCLUDE ANY PCPN WHICH MAY NEED TO BE IN LATER FCSTS AS WARM ADVCTN COULD COMBINE WITH WK TROFS THAT WILL LIKELY MOV ACRS PLAINS BY NEXT WEEKEND BUT NO CONFIDENCE IN TIMING EXISTS. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && CHERMOK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1125 AM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-082300- ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS- FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON- MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE- PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD- SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE- 1125 AM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT IT APPEARS THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KING
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
351 PM CDT SUN AUG 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0349 PM HAIL 6 S WILBER 40.39N 96.96W
08/08/2004 1.00 INCH SALINE NE TRAINED SPOTTER
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DEWALDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
356 PM CDT SUN AUG 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0350 PM HAIL 3 W DE WITT 40.40N 96.98W
08/08/2004 1.00 INCH SALINE NE TRAINED SPOTTER
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DEWALDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
424 PM CDT SUN AUG 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0413 PM HAIL 3 E PLYMOUTH 40.30N 96.93W
08/08/2004 0.75 INCH JEFFERSON NE PUBLIC
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DEWALDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
439 PM CDT SUN AUG 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0432 PM HAIL FAIRBURY 40.14N 97.18W
08/08/2004 1.00 INCH JEFFERSON NE EMERGENCY MNGR
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DEWALDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
442 PM CDT SUN AUG 08 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0440 PM HAIL 4 S COOK 40.45N 96.16W
08/08/2004 1.00 INCH JOHNSON NE LAW ENFORCEMENT
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DEWALDThe Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail around 1 inch in diameter damaged some cars and roofs of houses and shreaded leaves off of trees and crops from near Fairbury to 5 miles south of town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2004
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: 5422213.