Hail, Dawes
- When
- July 29, 2:48 PM MST to 2:52 PM MST
- Where
- Dawes County, Chadron
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.833, -103.000
Hail in Nebraska, July 29, 2004
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, 1:30 PM MST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 1:30 PM MST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 230 PM MDT THU JUL 29 2004 .SHORT TERM...NORTHWEST FLOW WILL BE ALOFT TONIGHT AND FRIDAY WITH A SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS THE CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOUTHERLY WINDS EAST OF THE MTNS THIS EVENING WILL BECOME NORTHERLY BY EARLY FRIDAY...AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH OF THE AREA. BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...SURFACE WINDS WILL BECOME WEST. LOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN DRY TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...BUT MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE PRESENT. LIS WILL BE FROM -2 TO -4 THIS EVENING WITH CAPES FROM 500 TO 700 J/KG. 500 WINDS ARE 30 KTS OR GREATER. WILL MENTION SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...WITH SOME SEVERE STORMS LIKELY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THETA E RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AS THE SHORT WAVE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA...SO SEVERE STORMS SHOULD NOT CONTINUE MUCH PAST SUNSET. ON FRIDAY...AIRMASS IS ONLY SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE WITH WEAK CAPES. WILL GO WITH DRY CONDITION FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON. .LONG TERM...WARMER AND GENERALLY DRY AS THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE MOUNTAIN STATES SATURDAY AND THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. A FEW DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE RIDGE WILL TRIGGER ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY FOCUSED ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN. THE FIRST OF THESE WILL RACE ALONG THE COLORADO AND WYOMING BORDER SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SOME RESIDUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER THROUGH TUESDAY. THE RIDGE WILL TILT EASTWARD AT MID WEEK UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CANADA. TEMPERATURES WILL START TO FALL SLIGHTLY ON THURSDAY. HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN GENERALLY DRY. .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. KMD/DCC
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 9:02 AM MST, 5 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1002 AM MDT THU JUL 29 2004 NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-301130- 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 1002 AM MDT THU JUL 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING AND THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER AIR WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TO CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE BEST LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ONLY A FEW WEAK THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS AS A WARMER AND MAINLY DRY WEATHER PATTERN SETS UP. LOWER ELEVATIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. KMD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:49 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
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, July 29, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 29, 2004
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 29, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, July 29, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 29, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 29 to 30, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 29, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, July 29, 2004
- Flooding in South Carolina, July 29 to 30, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, July 29, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 29, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, July 29, 2004
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 2004
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: 5413961.