Hail, Lincoln
- When
- April 23, 11:06 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County, North Platte
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.150, -100.783
There were numerous reports of nickel to quarter sized hail in the city of North Platte.
Hail in Nebraska, April 23, 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 23, 9:17 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 9:17 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1017 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2006 .UPDATE... POSTED A WINTER STORM WATCH FOR NW ZONES FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON INTO TOMORROW NIGHT BASED ON NEW NAM DATA. ADVISORIES/WATCHES MAY BE NEEDED FOR GARDEN/EASTERN CHERRY/GRANT/ARTHUR COUNTIES. DECISIONS TO BE MADE WITH MORNING ZONES AFTER REVIEW OF COMPLETE SUITE OF NEW DATA. FOCUS FOR NOW IS ON CONVECTION HEADING THIS WAY FROM CO. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH LIKELY TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY FOR CHASE/FRONTIER/HAYES COUNTIES. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WATCH FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT FOR NEZ004-NEZ094. && JMC
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 9:45 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1045 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2006 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-250345- 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- 1045 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2006 /945 PM MDT SUN APR 23 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS POSSIBILITY FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A GRANT TO WELLFLEET LINE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. A STORNG SPRING STORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBERASKA ON MONDAY. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR RAIN TO CHANGE TO SNOW ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA MONDAY AFTERNOON LASTING INTO TUESDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND SIX INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY MORNING...GENERALLY NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM KILGORE TO AINSWORTH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) MP
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:07 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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 23, 2006
- Hail in Kansas, April 23, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, April 23, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 23 to 24, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, April 23, 2006
- Hail in Texas, April 23 to 24, 2006
- Hail and Dense Fog in Maryland, April 23 to 24, 2006
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, April 23, 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: 5498529.