Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 2005

Name: Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 2005
Start: 2005-07-28T17:05
End: 2005-07-28T21:05
Location: Nebraska

July 28, 2005 · NWS LBF · 11 events in 9 counties and zones

11 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: 11

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 Jul 28, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
250 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2005

...FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE TEMPERATURES AND ISOLATED TSRAS...MAINLY
IN THE NEAR PERIODS...

.DISCUSSION...
.NEAR TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)...MAIN CONSIDERATIONS OVER THE
NEXT 24 HOURS ARE PRECIPITATION CHANCES...WHICH IRONICALLY ARE
PROBABLY THE BEST OVER THE NEXT 7 DAYS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA. WV IMAGERY ATTM CONTINUES TO HIGHLIGHT A DECENT WAVE OVER
IDAHO AND NWRN WYOMING ATTM...WITH THE LEADING EDGE BEGINNING TO MOVE
INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. PRECIP CHANCES ARE
FAIRLY MINIMAL...AS EXPECTED CONVECTION WILL BE ELEVATED IN NATURE.
THE NAM...AS IT HAS ADVERTISED FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS...USHERS
IN DECENT WARM AIR ADVECTION OVERNIGHT ALONG WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE
H5 WAVE. H85 JET IN EXCESS OF 40 KTS WILL ADD FURTHER SUPPORT TO
CONVECTION. WILL OPT FOR ONLY 20 POPS AS THE BOUNDARY LAYER SHOULD
REMAIN FAIRLY DRY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HRS. FORECAST CHALLENGE
TURNS TO HIGH TEMPERATURES TOMORROW. SFC TROF APPGS THE PANHANDLE ON
FRIDAY...WITH WRLY WINDS WEST AND STRONG SRLY WINDS EAST...TEMPS
WILL RISE INTO THE LWR TO MID 90S ACROSS THE BOARD. WILL PROBABLY
FLIRT WITH 100 ACROSS THE SW TOMORROW AS WELL. SFC TROF WILL REMAIN
ACROSS THE FA ON SATURDAY AS WELL WITH HOT READINGS REMAINING IN
PLACE. WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF LOW POPS ACROSS THE NRN TIER FOR
FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT RIDGE RUNNER WAVES.

.LONG TERM (MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)...
PATTERN DRIES OUT ON SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK AS THE RIDGE AMPLIFIES
OVER THE CENTER OF THE CONUS. H5 WINDS DECREASE SIGNIFICANTLY WITH A
CHANGEOVER TO THE NORTH BY MONDAY. THIS WILL KEEP ANY FRONT RANGE
CONVECTION CONFINED TO THE WEST...SO DRY FCST CONTINUED. NEXT REMOTE
CHANCE FOR PRECIP MAY LIE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY AS THE PATTERN
DE AMPLIFIES. MODELS TRENDING TOWARD A BRIEF BREAKDOWN IN THE WRN
RIDGE ON WEDS NIGHT AND THURSDAY...BEFORE THE PATTERN AMPLIFIES ONCE
AGAIN LATE NEXT WEEK.

&&

LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

CLB

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 2:57 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
357 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2005

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-291101-
ARTHUR NE-BLAINE NE-BOYD NE-BROWN NE-CHASE NE-CUSTER NE-DEUEL NE-
EASTERN CHERRY NE-FRONTIER NE-GARDEN NE-GARFIELD NE-GRANT NE-
HAYES NE-HOLT NE-HOOKER NE-KEITH NE-KEYA PAHA NE-LINCOLN NE-LOGAN NE-
LOUP NE-MCPHERSON NE-PERKINS NE-ROCK NE-SHERIDAN NE-THOMAS NE-
WESTERN CHERRY NE-WHEELER NE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AINSWORTH...ARNOLD...ARTHUR...BASSETT...
BIG SPRINGS...BREWSTER...BROKEN BOW...BURWELL...CHAPPELL...CURTIS...
GORDON...GRANT...HAY SPRINGS...HAYES CENTER...IMPERIAL...MULLEN...
NORTH PLATTE...ONEILL...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE...SPENCER...
SPRINGVIEW...STAPLETON...TAYLOR...THEDFORD...TRYON AND VALENTINE
357 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A NEARLY STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE TO MEANDER ACROSS
NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL
TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION AND COMBINE WITH THE SURFACE
BOUNDARY TO PRODUCE A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. ANY THUNDERSTORM
WHICH DEVELOPS WILL BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE...HOWEVER CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL
LIKELY BE THE MOST COMMON HAZARD.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL STRENGTHEN AND BUILD INTO THE REGION
THROUGH THE PERIOD. NEVERTHELESS...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE MAINLY ACROSS NORTHWESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY NIGHT WITH A FEW LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SUNDAY
THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

ALSO AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE RETURNING TO THE MID AND UPPER
90S FOR MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. WITH LIMITED MOISTURE
AT THE SURFACE...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE FALLING AT TIMES BELOW
25 PERCENT. THIS WILL CREATE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FIRE CONDITIONS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MASEK

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:06 UTC.

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Event by event

11 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Custer

When: July 28, 5:05 PM CST
Where: Custer County, 10 mi N of Broken Bow
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.550, -99.650

Hail, Loup

When: July 28, 5:20 PM CST
Where: Loup County, 1 mi SSW of Taylor
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.750, -99.383

Hail, Cherry

When: July 28, 6:05 PM CST
Where: Cherry County, 19 mi WSW of Brownlee
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.183, -100.967

Hail, Garfield

When: July 28, 6:35 PM CST
Where: Garfield County, 9 mi ENE of Burwell
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.833, -98.967

Hail, Cherry

When: July 28, 6:43 PM CST
Where: Cherry County, 2 mi W of Wood Lake
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.633, -100.267

Hail, Wheeler

When: July 28, 7:05 PM CST
Where: Wheeler County, 4 mi E of Ericson
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.783, -98.600

Hail, Brown

When: July 28, 7:05 PM CST
Where: Brown County, 4 mi NNE of Johnstown
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.617, -100.033

Hail, Hooker

When: July 28, 6:15 PM MST
Where: Hooker County, 10 mi SE of Mullen
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.950, -100.900

Hail, Rock

When: July 28, 7:35 PM CST
Where: Rock County, 6 mi NNE of Bassett
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.667, -99.467

Hail, Holt

When: July 28, 8:20 PM CST
Where: Holt County, 2 mi WNW of Stuart
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.617, -99.167

Hail, Holt

When: July 28, 9:05 PM CST
Where: Holt County, 5 mi N of O Neill
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.500, -98.650

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, July 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: 5452205, 5452206, 5452207, 5452208, 5452209, 5452210, 5452212, 5452211, 5452213, 5452508, 5452509.