1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jun 13, 3:45 PM CST, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 445 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 .DISCUSSION... IN THE SHORT TERM...STRONG TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED RPDLY AT THE EDGE OF A DRY LINE AND UNUSUAL MINI CIRCULATION BETWEEN AUH AND OLU. THIS HAS MOST OF THE FEATURES OF A SYNOPTIC SCALE LOW...BUT IS A LOT SMALLER. EXPECT CENTER TO MOVE SLOWLY E WITH A CHC TOR DVLPMNT IN COMMA HEAD...OTHERWISE SVR TIL CAPE RUNS OUT LATE THIS EVE. TSTMS SHOULD HELP A BOUNDARY PUSH SE INTO KS A FAR SE CORNER NE TNGT THEN STALL OUT IN NRN KS AND MO MON AS WK SFC HIGH PUSHES ACROSS AREA. NEXT BATCH OF TSTMS WILL LIKKELY HOLD OFF UNTIL LATER INTO THE NIGHT AS RETURN FLOW DEVELOPS AHEAD OF NEXT SFC AND UPPER WAVE. THIS WAVE IS POORLY DEFINED...AND THUS SUBJECT TO CONSIDERABLE REVISION AS WELL AS DEPENDENT ON DETAILS OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. FAIRLY HIGH CONFIDENCE THAT THIS WILL RESULT IN RAIN...AND QUITE POSSIBLY SVR WX AND AN MCS...BUT DETAILS REMAIN UNDEFINED YET. GENERALLY INCREASED POPS THROUGH EARLY WED. AFTER A COOL DRY INTERLUDE THU...THERE IS SOME CHANCE OF PRECIP AGAIN LATE FRI INTO SAT AS A WAVE ARRIVES IN NW FLOW. LEFT TEMPS SOMEWHAT ABOVE GUID IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && POLLACK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 725 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-141100- 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- 725 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR MONDAY EVENING INTO MONDAY NIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THERE IS A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT...THEN AGAIN FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. STORMS ON TUESDAY COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LATER HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE TIMING AND POTENTIAL HAZARDS WITH THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATER IN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEED TONIGHT...BUT IT MAY BE NEEDED ON MONDAY. MILLER
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:18 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail up to tennis ball size caused considerable damage near West Point. Many windows were broken out of several houses near town. The hail was accompanied by strong winds which severly damaged or destroyed some 24,000 to 30,000 acres of crop land, and drifted 6 to 8 inches deep in places.
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