Hail, Frontier
- When
- May 22, 4:35 PM CST
- Where
- Frontier County, 7 mi SW of Eustis
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.598, -100.124
A few vehicles were damaged by the hail.
Hail in Nebraska, May 22, 2007
Isolated severe thunderstorms across southwest and central Nebraska produced large hail.
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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 happened
The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
Isolated severe thunderstorms across southwest and central Nebraska produced large hail.
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 May 22, 2:41 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:41 PM CST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 341 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 .SHORT TERM DISCUSSION (TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... AN ACTIVE CONVECTIVE WEATHER IN STORE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOTH NAM AND GFS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH HEAVY PRECIPITATION ALONG H85 FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. WITH PWS STILL AT 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MOST WIDESPREAD THREAT. RISK OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALSO FOR AREAS EAST OF CODY THROUGH IMPERIAL. RISK OF ROTATING STORMS WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS SERN TIER AS WELL. REPRIEVE FROM ACTIVE WEATHER VERY SHORT AS BOTH NAM AND GFS INDICATING ANOTHER ROUND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS UPPER SHORT WAVE IN NEVADA ROUNDS THE FOUR CORNERS AND LIFTS NORTHEAST INTO NEBR AND KS. LOOKS MAINLY DRY THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT UNTIL ANOTHER CHC RETURNS FRIDAY NIGHT. .LONG TERM DISCUSSION (SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... ALL MEDIUM RANGE MODELS INDICATE FAST WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT EACH DAY WITH ACTIVE WEATHER POSSIBLE EACH DAY AS SFC FRONT REMAINS ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. A WARMUP INTO THE 80S LIKELY MONDAY AND TUESDAY. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL BE ENCOUNTERED THROUGH MIDNIGHT CDT OUTSIDE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. CEILING WILL LOWER BEYOND 03Z FROM THE NORTH TO SOUTH IN AREAS EAST OF THE PANHANDLE FOR MVFR CONDITIONS THROUGH 09Z. THEN AS THE FRONT PULLS EAST CEILINGS LIFTING ACROSS THE WEST BUT MVFR CONDITIONS LINGERING ON EASTERN PORTIONS OF TWEB ROUTE 098 THROUGH 15Z WEDNESDAY. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && KAR/TLK
Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 1:56 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 256 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-231015- 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- 256 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 2007 /156 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT IN AREAS EAST OF THE PANHANDLE WITH THE GREATEST RISK EAST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE IN CHERRY COUNTY...SUTHERLAND IN LINCOLN COUNTY...AND HAYES CENTER IN HAYES COUNTY. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A COUPLE DIFFERENT BOUNDARIES OVER THE AREA WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS AREAS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 92 IN MCPHERSON COUNTY EAST INTO WHEELER COUNTY. FURTHER SOUTHEAST ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR STORMS DEVELOPING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INCLUDING PORTIONS OF LINCOLN...HAYES...FRONTIER..AND CUSTER COUNTIES AS STORMS WILL HAVE A BETTER POTENTIAL TO BECOME SUPERCELLS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AFTER A QUIET PERIOD WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...AN ACTIVE PATTERN WILL RETURN WITH AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY THROUGH MONDAY. A BOUNDARY COMING INTO NEBRASKA FRIDAY WILL INCREASE THE PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA SATURDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE KECK
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:35 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Frontier
- When
- May 22, 4:37 PM CST
- Where
- Frontier County, 3 mi SW of Eustis
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 40.639, -100.070
Hail, Custer
- When
- May 22, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County, 5 mi SSW of Oconto
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.083, -99.817
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
- Rip Current in Florida, May 22 to 30, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 22, 2007
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 22, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 22, 2007
- Tornadoes and Flood in Kansas, May 22 to 23, 2007
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 22, 2007
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 22, 2007
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 22, 2007
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 22, 2007
- Drought in Alabama, May 22 to 31, 2007
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 22, 2007
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, May 22, 2007
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, May 2007
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: 35759, 35760, 35761.