Hail, Wheeler
- When
- April 15, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler County, 9 mi NNW of Bartlett
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.000, -98.617
Hail in Nebraska, April 15, 2006
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 15, 2:21 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 2:21 PM CST, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 321 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 .SHORT TERM... MODELS HANDLING H5 LOW OVER SOUTHWEST ZONES. ECHOES TO WEST MOVING INTO COOLER DRIER AIR AND SHOULD STAY BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...OR AT BEST SOME SMALL HAIL BEFORE LOSS OF INSOLATION. BEST DYNAMICS OVER NOPRTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM KODX TO KTIF AND NORTHEAST. TOR WATCH ALONG DRY LINE AND NORTHEAST INTO NORTH CENTRAL. .LONG TERM... MODELS CONTINUE WITH MOVING H5 SYSTEM TO AFFECT FORECAST AREA TUE FURTHER NORTH. HAVE MODIFIED WEATHER GRIDS SLIGHTLY BASED ON THIS TREND AND WARMED TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY FOR BLENDING. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10PM CDT FOR NEZ006>010-026>029-038. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT /6 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR NEZ022- NEZ035-NEZ056-NEZ057-NEZ058-NEZ059- NEZ069-NEZ070- NEZ071. && POWER
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 15, 2:34 PM CST, 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 334 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-160645- 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- 334 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2006 /234 PM MDT SAT APR 15 2006/ ...TORNADO WATCH NORTH CENTRAL THROUGH 10 PM CDT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE DRYLINE IS PROGRESSING NORTHEAST INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TO FOCUS EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN FURTHER WEST AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE IN CHERRY COUNTY...TO HYANNIS IN GRANT COUNTY...ARTHUR IN ARTHUR COUNTY...OGALLALA IN KEITH COUNTY...GRANT IN PERKINS COUNTY...AND STOCKVILLE IN FRONTIER COUNTY. SHEAR AND MOISTURE CONTINUES TO INCREASE OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...WITH THE CHANCE FOR TORNADIC SUPERCELLS THIS EVENING WITH A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT. A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST THROUGH 7 PM CDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MAY AGAIN BE REQUIRED SUNDAY FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...ANOTHER POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AT THIS TIME THE GREATEST THREAT APPEARS TO BE LARGE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE. THIS STORM SYSTEM WILL BE MONITORED AND LATER FORECASTS TO PROVIDE MORE DETAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) KECK
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 162 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:58 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
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, April 15, 2006
- Rip Current in South Carolina, April 15, 2006
- Tornadoes in Missouri, April 15, 2006
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 15, 2006
- High Wind in Iowa, April 15, 2006
- Wildfire and High Wind in Texas, April 15, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, April 15, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 15, 2006
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 15, 2006
- Wildfire in Texas, April 15 to 16, 2006
- High Wind in Kansas, April 15, 2006
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 15, 2006
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, April 2006
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: 5498528.