Hail, Otoe
- When
- August 14, 4:33 PM CST
- Where
- Otoe County, 1.26 mi ESE of Paul
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 40.560, -95.860
Hail up to quarter-size was reported by a spotter near Highway 75 south of Nebraska City.
Hail in Nebraska, August 14, 2008
A weak frontal boundary pushed southwest into southeast Nebraska and caused an isolated severe thunderstorm to develop near the Missouri River. The cell produced hail up to 1 inch in diameter before it dissipated near Brock.
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
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 OAX wrote it up.
A weak frontal boundary pushed southwest into southeast Nebraska and caused an isolated severe thunderstorm to develop near the Missouri River. The cell produced hail up to 1 inch in diameter before it dissipated near Brock.
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 Aug 14, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:38 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 338 PM CDT THU AUG 14 2008 .DISCUSSION... RECENT NWP HAS MOVED THE PROJECTED POSITION OF THE MAIN CUT OFF LOW MUCH FARTHER WEST AND SOUTH THAN WAS ORIGINALLY FORECAST...THEREFORE WE HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED POPS THROUGH THE ENTIRE FORECAST. .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND RUC 500MB ANALYSIS SHOW CUT OFF LOW CENTERED OVER THE MT/ND/CANADIAN BORDER WITH A FEW WAVES MOVING THRU THE NW FLOW INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS. MAIN SHORTWAVE OF INTEREST IS CURRENTLY PUSHING EAST INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA AND HAS SPARKED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WHERE ML CAPES HAVE RISEN TO NEAR 2500J/KG WITH VERY LITTLE CINH TO HOLD ANYTHING BACK. AS WAVE CONTINUES TO PUSH EWD...TSTM CHANCES INCREASE ACROSS THE CWA HOWEVER...INSTABILITY IS RELATIVELY WEAK DUE TO BLOW OFF CLOUD COVER FROM CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO OUR SOUTH. BULK SHEAR REMAINS VERY WEAK ACROSS THE AREA AND ONLY GENERAL THUNDER IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. SMALL TSTM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY AS LOBES OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY EJECT OUT OF CUT OFF LOW THAT IS FORECAST TO DROP SOUTH INTO SRN WY/NRN CO. AS MENTIONED ABOVE...THIS PATH IS MUCH FARTHER WEST THAN ORIGINALLY FORECAST SO HAVE BUMPED POPS DOWN TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS WEEKEND. HAVE REMOVED ALL MENTION OF POPS FOR THE WEEKEND AS THE CUT OFF LOW IS SLOWLY EXPECTED TO SPIN INTO SERN CO BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...KEEPING UPPER DYNAMICS FAR TO OUR WEST. SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS ARE EXPECTED WITH LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOW 60S AND HIGHS IN THE LOW 80S. .LONG TERM... LOOKING AT THE LONGTERM...A CUTOFF LOW SITUATED OVER COLORADO SUNDAY EVENING WILL CONTINUE A SOUTHEASTERLY TRACK THROUGH THE SOUTH CENTRAL PLAINS...EVENTUALLY SCOOTING BACK TO THE NORTHEAST AND SITUATED SOUTH OF OUR AREA BY THURSDAY. THE GFS AND RECENT EURO RUNS STAY CONSISTENT WITH THE TRACK OF THE LOW THROUGH NEXT THURSDAY. KEPT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP AND SOME ISOLATED THUNDER THROUGH MUCH OF THE EXTENDED. EXPECT A BETTER CHANCE FOR PRECIP THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD DUE TO THE POSITION OF THE LOW...SO RAISED POPS JUST A BIT THROUGH THE END OF THURSDAY. HIGHS THROUGH NEXT WEEK SHOULD BE IN THE LOW TO MID 80S AND LOWS ARE FORECAST TO BE IN THE LOW TO MID 60S. && .AVIATION... FOR TAF SITES KOMA/KLNK/KOFK THROUGH 16/00Z. AREA OF CONVECTION OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI WILL CONTINUE MOVING AWAY FROM EASTERN NEBRASKA. LINGERING MID AND HIGH CLOUDINESS SHOULD EXIT ALL TAF SITE BY 00Z. ANOTHER SYSTEM DROPPING SOUTH THROUGH WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL BRING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WELL WEST OF THE TAF SITES...MAINTAINING VFR CONDITIONS OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA. HOWEVER...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN EASTERN NEBRASKA...ESPECIALLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...BUT COVERAGE EXPECTED TO BE ISOLATED ENOUGH TO PRECLUDE MENTION IN TAFS. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && GRIFFIS/DERGAN/KURTZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 4:04 PM CST, 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 504 PM CDT THU AUG 14 2008 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-151100- 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- 504 PM CDT THU AUG 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE ACTIVITY IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL BE SMALL CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT...AS WELL AS SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY OVER MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT OR FRIDAY. DEE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:33 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Nemaha
- When
- August 14, 4:48 PM CST
- Where
- Nemaha County, Julian
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 40.520, -95.870
Hail up to dime-size was reported just south of Julian.
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
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, August 14, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 14, 2008
- Tornado and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 14, 2008
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, August 14, 2008
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 14, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 14, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 14, 2008
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 14, 2008
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, August 14, 2008
- Lightning Strike and Heavy Rain in Delaware, August 14, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 14, 2008
- Hail in Maryland, August 14, 2008
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2008
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: 113625, 113622.