Severe thunderstorms formed or moved into portions of Southwest Nebraska on the afternoon of July 3rd. Numerous reports of nickel to golf ball size were received.
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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 episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms formed or moved into portions of Southwest Nebraska on the afternoon of July 3rd. Numerous reports of nickel to golf ball size were received. Heavy rainfall of over 2 inches fell in Grant with law enforcement officials reporting water of many city streets.
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 Jul 3, 1:50 PM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 350 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 .SYNOPSIS... H5 HIGH OVER SOUTHWEST CONUS PUSHING A BROAD RIDGE THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS PUTTING WESTERN NEBRASKA IN NORTHWEST FLOW. WEAK BOUNDARY EXTENDS ALONG A TROUGH FROM CENTRAL MN THROUGH NORTHEAST NEBRASKA TO A LOW OVER SOUTHERN CO. && .DISCUSSION... WEAK CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG BOUNDARY IN EASTERN CO AND NORTHWEST KS ALONG THIS BOUNDARY WHERE SURFACE HEATING IS DESTABLIZING ATMOSPHERE. STEEP LAPSE RATES AND STRONG INVERSION BUT SOME WEAK CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALREADY. PWS HIGH AND STORM MOTION MINIMAL HEAVY PRECIPITATION COULD BE A CONCERN. USED BLEND OF MODELS FOR FORECAST. SVA HAS BEEN DECIDED UPON FOR SOUTHWEST ZONES. HAVE UPPED POPS TO BLEND WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES. SOME LINGERING CONVECTION IN THE AM BUT PRETTY MUCH OVER BY 15Z. TEMPERATURES SOMEWHAT COOLER ON WEDNESDAY WITH LOWER TDS. RIDGE FLATTENS SOME WITH BLOCK UPSTREAM CONTINUING TO SLOW THINGS DOWN. TEMPERATURES TO TORCH OUT UNDER THE RIDGE SATURDAY WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW. TEMPERATURES TO RISE INTO THE MID AND UPPER 90S IN THE EXTENDED WITH LOWS IN THE 50S AND 60S && .AVIATION... AVIATION CONCERNS CENTER AROUND THE POSSIBILITY OFF TSRA ACROSS PORTIONS OF TWB ROUTES 274 AND 264. FRONTAL POSITION WAS JUST S OF LBF BUT WITH VEERING WINDS DUE TO DEVELOPING NERN CO LOW...FRONT HAS PUSHED BACK NWD. LBF TAF WILL BE MOST IMPACTED. WOULD EXPECT THAT AFTER TSRA DEVELOPMENT...STRATUS WILL BE A POSSIBILITY AS WELL...MAINLY BEHIND THE FRONT. THIS AGAIN WOULD AFFECT MAINLY 274 AND 264 DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM MDT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA NEZ057>059-069>071. && POWER/JWS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 321 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-042030- 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- 321 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 /221 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A STALLED FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AND OVERNIGHT...MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM MERRIMAN TO BIG SPRINGS. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS HAD DEVELOPED AND...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE INTERACTS WITH THE FRONT AND UNSTABLE AIR...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...A BRIEF TORNADO CAN NOT BE RULED OUT...MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM OGALLALA TO BRADY...BUT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AFTER THE FRONT PASSES THROUGH WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA LATE TONIGHT...MAINLY DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED UNTIL THE NEXT APPROACHING FRONT ON SUNDAY. THIS NEXT FRONT IS ALSO EXPECTED TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...MAINLY FOR REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE JWS
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:56 UTC.
11 hail, 2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Vehicles, and corn and wheat crops were damaged by the hail.
The large hail damaged corn crops and a couple of vehicles.
A couple of vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
The large hail damaged vehicles, broke windows, and destroyed corn and wheat crops.
Corn and wheat crops were destroyed by the large hail.
A large slow moving thunderstorm produced 3 to 6 inches of rainfall. The rainfall drained into canyons in southeast Lincoln County causing flash flooding with roads under water in several locations.
Heavy rainfall from a nearly stationary thunderstorm produced flash flooding. City streets around Grant were under water.
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