Hail in Nebraska, June 15, 2004

Name: Hail in Nebraska, June 15, 2004
Start: 2004-06-15T20:09
End: 2004-06-15T20:21
Location: Nebraska

June 15, 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.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
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: 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 Jun 15, 1:39 PM MST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 1:39 PM MST, 6 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
239 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004

.SHORT TERM...A TROUGH EXTENDS FROM NEAR VALENTINE NEBRASKA TO
SIDNEY AND THEN LIES ALONG THE WYOMING/COLORADO BORDER. WINDS ARE
BETWEEN NORTH AND WEST ACROSS MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA NOW. BUT
SOUTHEAST WINDS LURKING JUST SOUTH OF THE COLORADO BORDER WILL PUSH
A MORE MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER NORTHWARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL COLORADO WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST
THIS EVENING AND PROVIDE MOST OF THE WESTERN PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
WITH SOME RAIN...ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. A SEVERE STORM OR TWO IS
POSSIBLE ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FRINGE OF FORECAST AREA...MAINLY
CHEYENNE COUNTY NEBRASKA. OTHERWISE IT APPEARS TO BE A GENERAL RAIN
EVENT WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS LINGER ALONG THE
BOUNDARY INTO THE EARLY MORNING AS MOIST UPSLOPE TAKES HOLD. THIS
WILL SPREAD LOW CLOUDS ACROSS THE AREA WHICH STICK AROUND THROUGHOUT
WEDNESDAY. SO NOT MUCH WARMING IS EXPECTED DURING THE DAY...EXCEPT
IN CARBON COUNTY WHERE SOME SUN WILL POKE THROUGH THE CLOUDS.

.LONG TERM...MODELS SHOW LOW LEVEL MOISTURE LINGERING WEDNESDAY
EVENING WITH GFS KEEPING LIGHT QPF OVER THE CWA. ETA NOT QUITE
AS BULLISH ON THE QPF WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. SURFACE
BOUNDARY TRIES TO MOVE EAST DURING THE DAY THURSDAY ALLOWING THE
WESTERN PORTION OF THE CWA TO HAVE SOME SUNSHINE AND WARMER
TEMPERATURES. ON THE PLAINS STILL EXPECT WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW ALONG
WITH SOME CLOUDS. LEANED TOWARD COOLER GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES
THURSDAY. SECONDARY SURGE OF COLD AIR MOVES THROUGH THE CWA THURSDAY
NIGHT WITH DEEP UPSLOPE FLOW DEVELOPING AND LOW CLOUDS AND
PRECIPITATION SPREADING ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA. COOLED TEMPERATURES
AND RAISED POPS FOR FRIDAY. GFS SLOW TO CLEAR THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
AND QPF FROM THE CWA AND HAS IT LINGERING INTO SUNDAY. FOR
NOW...HAVE DRIED OUT THE FORECAST LATE SATURDAY NIGHT WITH WARMER
TEMPERATURES SUNDAY. DRY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WITH RIDGE BUILDING
OFF TO THE WEST EXPECTED MONDAY INTO TUESDAY WITH WARMER
TEMPERATURES.

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

KP/STARK

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 9:25 AM MST, 10 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1025 AM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-161102-
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
1025 AM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING...BECOMING
WIDESPREAD ON THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. ELSEWHERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED IN COVERAGE. STORMS MAY
BECOME SEVERE ALONG THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
BETWEEN 6 PM AND MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FROM
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE OF
NEBRASKA THIS EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:10 PM MST, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
810 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004

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

0758 PM     HAIL             SUNOL                   41.16N 102.76W
06/15/2004  1.75 INCH        CHEYENNE           NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

0804 PM     HAIL             SUNOL                   41.16N 102.76W
06/15/2004  1.00 INCH        CHEYENNE           NE   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

BANN

Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:53 PM MST, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
853 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004

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

0820 PM     HAIL             4 NW LODGEPOLE          41.15N 102.64W
06/15/2004  0.75 INCH        CHEYENNE           NE   PUBLIC

&&

BANN

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:06 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Morrill

When: June 15, 8:09 PM MST to 8:21 PM MST
Where: Morrill County, 1 mi S of Bridgeport
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.650, -103.100

Nickel to quarter size hail.

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, June 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: 5408385.