3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Jun 20, 12:37 PM MST, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 237 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE IS PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH SATURDAY... .DISCUSSION... NEAR TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...MAIN FCSTING CHALLENGE IN THE NEAR TERM IS PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH FRIDAY AND SEVERE POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT. SFC ANALYSIS AND LAPS DATA AS OF 18Z INDICATING A FRONTAL BOUNDARY RIGHT ON TOP OF LBF...EXTENDING NWD TO ANW AND SWD INTO WRN KS. ANOTHER BOUNDARY EXTENDS WNWD FROM A SFC LOW (WEST OF HILL CITY) TO SOUTH OF BURLINGTON AND LIMON COLORADO. SHORTWAVE ENERGY ALREADY IMPACTING CENTRAL COLORADO AND ERN WYOMING REFERENCED FROM WV IMAGERY AND ABUNDANT TOWERING CU FIELD IN THE VIS SATELLITE. MOISTURE CONTINUES TO POOL ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE BEFORE MENTIONED SFC FEATURE...AS DEW POINTS FOR LBF...OGA AND IML HAVE SHOT UP INTO THE LWR 60S. LAPS DATA FROM 18Z INDICATING A BROAD SWATH OF 2500J/KG CAPES FROM JUST NORTH OF LBF...TO IML AND OGA AS WELL...WITH A STEADILY ERODING CAP. SFC TO H4 SHEAR VERY IMPRESSIVE THIS AFTERNOON WITH BETTER THAN 50KTS OF SHEAR. TORNADO THREAT APPEARS FAIRLY MINIMAL THOUGH AS 0-1 AND 0-3 KM HELICITIES NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE AND BULK RICHARDSON NUMBERS INDICATE MORE OF A WIND AND HAIL EVENT VS A TORNADIC ONE. REGARDLESS ANY CONVECTION WHICH INTERACTS WITH THE BEFORE MENTIONED SFC FRONT WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED VERY CLOSELY FOR TORNADOES. LOW LEVEL JET WILL BE FOCUSED OVER SRN NEBR OVERNIGHT...SO ONGOING CONVECTION SHOULD LAST WELL AFTER DARK. WILL FOCUS HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH AND MENTION SEVERE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. DEJA VS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS THE HIGH PLAINS REMAINS IN ZONAL FLOW ALOFT WITH THETA E RIDGING INTO THE FRONT RANGES OF COLORADO AND WYOMING. HAVE PAINTED POPS FOR BOTH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...PRIMARILY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...AS SHORTWAVES EMERGE FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. SEVERE THREAT SHOULD REMAIN CONCENTRATED ACROSS THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO ALIGN ACROSS THE NEBR/KS BORDER ON WEDNESDAY. WILL NEED TO SEE WHERE THIS PARKS ITSELF WEDNESDAY...BEFORE ASSESSING THE SVR THREAT FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME...HIGHEST POPS IN THE SOUTH...WITH LOWER POPS IN THE NRN ZONES. LONG RANGE (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)...MAIN FORECASTING CHALLENGES IN THE LONG TERM ARE PRECIPITATION CHANCES MAINLY FOR FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. UPPR PATTERN WILL BEGIN A SLOW TRANSITION FROM ZONAL TO NWRLY THIS WEEKEND. THIS AMPLIFICATION...A RESULT OF RIDGING IN THE WEST AND TROFING OVER THE GREAT LAKES...SHOULD DIMINISH PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. FOR SATURDAY...A TROF OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DIVE INTO THE UPPR MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...FORCING A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE CWA FOR SATURDAY. BEST CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION OCCUR ALONG THE FRONT FOR SATURDAY...THEN SUNDAY ACROSS THE FAR WESTERN ZONES ALONG THE THETA E RIDGE AXIS OVER THE FRONT RANGES OF COLORADO AND WYOMING. NWRLY FLOW SHOULD CARRY SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY INTO THE SRN PANHANDLE AND FAR SWRN ZONES ON SUNDAY. DRY FCST RETAINED FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE CLB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 346 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-212100- 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- 346 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 /246 PM MDT TUE JUN 20 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HAY SPRINGS IN SHERIDAN COUNTY...TO ONEILL IN HOLT COUNTY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND WESTERN NEBRASKA THAT WILL HELP IGNITE STORM DEVELOPMENT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. OVERNIGHT THE STORMS MAY DEVELOP INTO A CLUSTER BRINGING ADDITIONAL RAINS TO THE OUTLOOK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP WILL SHIFT SOUTHWARD ON WEDNESDAY AS THE FRONT SLIPS SOUTH. ON WEDNESDAY THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL FOCUS SOUTH ON INTERSTATE 80. THEN THURSDAY AS THE FRONT MOVES FURTHER SOUTH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE...BUT SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE (ALL LOWERCASE) KECK
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 179 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:52 UTC.
3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail driven by strong wind completely destroyed corn and wheat fields, broke windows in homes, shredded vinyl siding on a house, and damaged roofs.
An anti-cyclonic left-moving supercell produced a brief, weak tornado that ripped off the roof of a home, destroyed the attached two car garage, moved outbuildings, and destroyed metal cattle shields. Debris from the destroyed home impacted a large metal machine shed and was scattered along a 1 mile path northeast of the farmstead. The home was a complete loss as the chimney fell into the house breaking floor joists.
Outflow winds estimated at 90 mph, from an anti-cyclonic left-moving supercell that produced a weak tornado 1.5 miles south of Rushville, uprooted trees, took roofs off two buildings, toppled an old wooden grain elevator, and overturned a camper. Falling trees damaged homes, businesses, and vehicles.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 2006Warnings in Nebraska, June 2006
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: 5510819, 5510822, 5510820, 5510821, 5510823.