Hail in Nebraska, September 15, 2006

Name: Hail in Nebraska, September 15, 2006
Start: 2006-09-15T17:20
End: 2006-09-15T17:20
Location: Nebraska

September 15, 2006 · NWS OAX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

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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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 15, 3:06 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 3:06 PM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
406 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006

.DISCUSSION...

PRIMARY PROBLEMS ARE THE CHANCES OF THUNDERSORMS IN THE SHORT TERM
AND TEMPERATURES DURG THE WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK.

DEEP UPR TROF AT 12Z WAS OVR THE PACIFIC NW WITH SERIES OF LEAD
SHORTWV TOFS EJECTING OUT ACRS THE RCKYS AND CNTRL PLNS.  AT H85
PLUME OF MSTR EXTDS FM WRN TX ACRS CNTRL AND WRN NEBRASKA INTO THE
DAKOTAS.  STG LO LVL JET CONTS TO ADVCT LO LVL MSTR NWD INTO THE
CNTRL PLNS. LEAD UPR SHORTWV TROF IS ASSOCD WITH UPR LVL JET MAX
MOVG ACRS KS.  THIS SHUD ENHANCE UVVS ACRS NEBRASKA THIS EVENING.

SHORT TERM...SEVERAL WAVES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSIBLE TONIGHT ACRS
THE OAX CWA.  THERE MAY BE A CHC OF ISOLD SVR TSTMS...ESPECIALLY N
OF COLUMBUS. ACTVITY THAT HAS BEEN DVLPG FM DAVID CITY TO MARSHALL
COUNTY KS IS ELEVATED CNVTN DUE TO ISENTROPIC LIFT.  A SECOND WAVE
OF MORE SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER CNTRL AND WRN NEBRASKA
AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATER TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW
MORNING.

ON SATURDAY SKIES SHUD CLEAR OUT BY MID MORNING AND ATMOSHERE SHUD
BCM UNSTBL BY AFTN INTO THE EVNG AHD OF AFTN.  NAM40 CAPES INDC CAPE
VALUES ABV 2000 J/KG.  HELICITY VALUES ON SATURDAY LOOK FVRBL FOR
SUPERCELLS STORMS AND POSSIBLE SQUALL LINE DVLPMT.  STG MID LVL DRY
PUNCH WL CREATE STGS ON PREFRONTAL TROF/DRYLN BY AFTN.

STORMS SHUD CONT ON SATURDAY NGT AND INTO SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE AREA
CLEARS OUT.

IN THE EXTENDED.  KEPT MAINLY DRY THRU THURSDAY NIGHT.  SOME SHOWERS
ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING OVER NORTHEASTERN
PARTS OF THE OAX CWA AS ANOTHER UPR LVL SHRTWV TROF MOVS ACRS THE
RGN.

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.
&&

SMITH

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 3:59 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ...CORRECTION TO TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
459 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-161100-
ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS-
FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON-
MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE-
PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-
SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE-
459 PM CDT FRI SEP 15 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA
AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT

SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EXTREME EAST
CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA EARLY THIS EVENING. BRIEF
DOWNPOURS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE
STORMS.

STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL BEGIN MOVING
INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA THIS EVENING...LIKELY BY 7 PM. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE THIS EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. THE SEVERE STORMS SHOULD BE
WEST OF A LINE FROM PAWNEE CITY NEBRASKA TO OMAHA TO ONAWA IOWA.
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
REMAINDER OF THE AREA. LINGERING NON THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR SATURDAY
MORNING ALONG AND EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP SATURDAY AFTERNOON
AS A DRY LINE BEGINS TO MOVE INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA. SUPERCELL
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE BY 2 TO 4 PM...
MOVING INTO THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA DURING
THE EVENING. STRONG INSTABILITY AND VERY STRONG WIND SHEAR WILL
COMBINE TO PRODUCE MOSTLY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS THE
OUTLOOK AREA. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES ALSO APPEAR POSSIBLE
ACROSS MAINLY NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY STILL BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF
EASTERN NEBRASKA THIS EVENING...BUT SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED ACROSS
WESTERN IOWA TONIGHT. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS ALL OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND
WESTERN IOWA.

NWS

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 166 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:19 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Knox

When: September 15, 5:20 PM CST
Where: Knox County, 12 mi W of Verdigre
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 42.600, -98.267

Hail covered the ground.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Nebraska in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, September 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: 5533532.