Hail, Keith
- When
- August 25, 5:35 PM MST
- Where
- Keith County, 1 mi E of Roscoe
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -101.567
Hail in Nebraska, August 25, 2005
3 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
- 3
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 25, 1:06 PM MST, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 1:06 PM MST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 306 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 .DISCUSSION... STRATUS CONTINUES TO ERRODE OVER WESTERN CWA WITH SURFACE FRONT FROM VTN TO SNY VICINITY. NICE MID LEVEL WAVE SEEN IN WV FROM CYS TO FTG. CONVECTION FIRING ALONG WAVE MOVING JUST NORTH OF EAST AROUND 25 MPH. TDS IN THE UPPER 60S OVER CWA WITH ATMOSPHERE EXPECTED TO DESTABILIZE QUICKLY AS STRATUS ERRODES. 12Z SOUNDING HAD SFC BASED CAPES 53OO J/KG AND -13 LIS. MODIFIED SOUNDING HAD ML CAPES AROUND 4K J/KG. PROFILERS NOT SHOWING ABUNDANT SHEAR. MULTICELLULAR ACTIVITY EXPECTED FROM HODOGRAPHS. AS UPPER LOW MOVES EAST ALONG CANADIAN BORDER OVERNIGHT AND THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY MID LEVEL WAVES WILL BE PUSHED THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES ENDING BY NOON FRIDAY OVER CWA. FOR THE EXTENDED DRY THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK WWITH TEMPERATURES RISING BACK INTO THE UPPER 80S AND LOWS IN THE 50S AND 60S. && LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9PM MDT) FOR SHERIDAN...GARDEN...DEUEL...CHERRY...GRANT...ARTHUR...KEITH...PERKINS ...CHASE...HOOKER...MCPHERSON...LINCOLN AND HAYES COUNTIES IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. && POWER
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 1:51 PM MST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 351 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-261030- SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN- GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON- LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER- WESTERN CHERRY- 351 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 /251 PM MDT THU AUG 25 2005/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. STRONG INSTABILITY HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA WILL TAP INTO THIS INSTABILITY AND LEAD TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT INTO THE LATE EVENING HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT...HOWEVER WITH A BOUNDARY STRETCHING ACROSS THE AREA...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE A SECONDARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LBF(ALL LOWERCASE) 13
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 1:02 PM MST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 302 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 NEZ004>005-022>024-035>036-056>059-069>070-260300- ARTHUR-CHASE-CHERRY-DEUEL-GARDEN-GRANT-HAYES-HOOKER-KEITH- LINCOLN-MCPHERSON-PERKINS-SHERIDAN- 302 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 744 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT /9 PM MDT/ FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 13 COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA CHERRY... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA CHASE... HAYES... KEITH... LINCOLN... PERKINS... IN THE EASTERN PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA DEUEL... GARDEN... SHERIDAN... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ARTHUR... GRANT... HOOKER... MCPHERSON... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ARTHUR...BIG SPRINGS...CHAPPELL... GORDON...GRANT...HAYES CENTER...HYANNIS...IMPERIAL...MULLEN... NORTH PLATTE...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE... TRYON AND VALENTINE.
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 1:53 PM MST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 353 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 NEZ006>010-260400- BOYD-BROWN-HOLT-KEYA PAHA-ROCK- 353 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 745 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BOYD... BROWN... HOLT... KEYA PAHA... ROCK... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...AINSWORTH...BASSETT...ONEILL... SPENCER AND SPRINGVIEW. NEZ004>005-022>024-035>036-056>059-069>070-260300- ARTHUR-CHASE-CHERRY-DEUEL-GARDEN-GRANT-HAYES-HOOKER-KEITH- LINCOLN-MCPHERSON-PERKINS-SHERIDAN- 353 PM CDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 744 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 10 PM CDT /9 PM MDT/ FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA... IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 13 COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA CHERRY... IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA CHASE... HAYES... KEITH... LINCOLN... PERKINS... IN THE EASTERN PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA DEUEL... GARDEN... SHERIDAN... IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ARTHUR... GRANT... HOOKER... MCPHERSON... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ARTHUR...BIG SPRINGS...CHAPPELL... GORDON...GRANT...HAYES CENTER...HYANNIS...IMPERIAL...MULLEN... NORTH PLATTE...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE... TRYON AND VALENTINE.
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cherry
- When
- August 25, 5:45 PM MST
- Where
- Cherry County, 33 mi S of Merriman
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.433, -101.700
Hail, Cherry
- When
- August 25, 6:48 PM MST
- Where
- Cherry County, 34 mi SSE of Merriman
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.467, -101.450
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
- Hurricane in Florida, August 25 to 26, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 25 to 26, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Minnesota, August 25 to 26, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Dakota, August 25, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, August 25, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 25, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, August 25, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2005
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Missouri, August 25, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2005
- Flash Flood in Missouri, August 25, 2005
- Flash Flood in Missouri, August 25, 2005
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2005
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: 5465048, 5465047, 5465049.