Name: Hail in Nebraska, April 24, 2006
Start: 2006-04-24T00:15
End: 2006-04-24T00:15
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

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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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 23, 9:17 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 9:17 PM CST, 2 hours 58 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, 2 hours 30 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 23, 11:15 PM CST, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1215 AM CDT MON APR 24 2006

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

1210 AM     HAIL             NORTH PLATTE            41.13N 100.77W
04/24/2006  E1.00 INCH       LINCOLN            NE   PUBLIC

            MULTIPLE REPORTS OF NICKLE TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL

&&

JMC

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:15 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Custer

When: April 24, 12:15 AM CST
Where: Custer County, 19 mi WNW of Oconto
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.250, -100.117

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

More

Every storm in Nebraska in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5498531.