Hail, Sheridan
- When
- July 9, 5:55 PM MST
- Where
- Sheridan County, White Clay
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -102.530
Hail in Nebraska, July 9, 2008
Severe thunderstorms with large hail developed along and north of a stationary front across central Nebraska.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Severe thunderstorms with large hail developed along and north of a stationary front across central Nebraska.
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 Jul 9, 12:43 PM MST, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 12:43 PM MST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 243 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 .SYNOPSIS... H5 RIDGE OVER WESTERN CONUS WITH CLEAR SKIES IN VISIBLE. SURFACE FRONT FROM LOW OVER THE GREAT LAKES THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY TO SOUTHERN KANSAS. && .DISCUSSION... MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE NEAR TERM HAVE TRENDED TOWARDS NAM WRF. ANOTHER WEAK WAVE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN PLAINS AGAIN TONIGHT. HAVE INCLUDED POPS FOR NORTH AND NORTH CENTRAL ZONES THROUGH THE NIGHTAND INTO EARLY AM. VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WITH ADEQUATE MOISTURE. STRONG WARM AIR ADVECTION OVER NIGHT. TEMPERATURES TO SOAR INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S. WARMER TEMPERATURES IN VTN VICINITY WITH SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR. ENTIRE CWA REMAINS HIGHLY UNSTABLE BUT WITH STRONG CAP AND NO TRIGGERS HAVE LEFT DRY FOR NOW. FRIDAY COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE COMMENCES NORTHWEST IN THE AM AND BY NOON SHOULD BE FROM KONL TO KOGA LINE HAVE ADDED SCHC POPS WITH FROPA SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. MODELS NOT HANDLING SITUATION WELL AND POPS MAY HAVE TO BE UPPED AND EXPANDED. FOR THE LAST WEEK WITH MINIMAL LIFT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KICK OFF SCATTERED COVERAGES NOW WITH GOOD LIFT SB CAPES TO 2000 JOULES/KG MODELS BRINGING SYSTEM THROUGH DRY. MODELS HAVE PROGGED FRONT TO PUSH INTO SOUTHERN KANSAS AND NOT STALL IT OUT OVER NORTHERN KANSAS SO HAVE PULLED POPS FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. EXTENDED...H5 RIDGE BUILDING INTO NORTHERN PLAINS THROUGH FIRST OF THE WORK WEEK. HAVE TWEAKED TEMPERATURES UP SOME WITH POPS ADDED FOR MONDAY AS WEAK BOUNDARY BEGINS TO MOVE EAST INTO THE PANHANDLE. NEXT SYSTEM ON TRACK FOR WEDNESDAY BUT GFS AND ECMWF VARY ON DEPTH AND STRENGTH OF SYSTEM HAVE LEFT DRY FOR NOW WITH UNCERTAINTY. TEMPERATURES NORMAL FOR THE SEASON AND DRY. && .AVIATION... SIMILAR PATTERN TO THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THE NEXT 24 HOURS FOR TERMINAL SITES KLBF AND KVTN. NORTHWEST FLOW WILL PUSH YET ANOTHER DISTURBANCE ACROSS THE REGION. ISOLATED SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. COVERAGE IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE VERY WIDESPREAD AND WILL HOLD OFF ON INCLUDING THUNDER IN THE TAFS YET...HOWEVER WILL INCLUDE CB TO CIGS. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE THAT A STORM WILL TRAVERSE THE TERMINAL SITES...IF ANY DO CROSS THE TERMINAL...A BRIEF REDUCTION TO MVFR CONDITIONS FROM CIGS AND/OR VSBY FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && MASEK/POWER
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 1:37 PM MST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 337 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-102045- 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- 337 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 /237 PM MDT WED JUL 9 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HAIL...MAINLY FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF GORDON IN SHERIDAN COUNTY TO BROKEN BOW IN CUSTER COUNTY LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FEW LINGERING THUNDERSHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY MORNING...MAINLY EFFECT AREAS NORTHEAST OF VALENTINE TO TAYLOR LINE. THEN THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION. DURING PEAK HEATING...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY INITIATE FOR AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GRANT THROUGH NORTH PLATTE AND ONEILL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE MASEK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 9, 1:39 PM MST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
339 PM CDT WED JUL 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1023 PM TSTM WND GST BIG SPRINGS 41.06N 102.07W
07/08/2008 M58.00 MPH DEUEL NE TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MASEKThe radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:53 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Sheridan
- When
- July 9, 6:52 PM MST
- Where
- Sheridan County, 4.86 mi S of Hay Spgs
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 42.610, -102.690
Hail, Sheridan
- When
- July 9, 6:53 PM MST
- Where
- Sheridan County, Gordon
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 42.800, -102.200
Hail, Cherry
- When
- July 9, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cherry County, 10 mi ENE of Brownlee
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 42.335, -100.439
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
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- Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, July 9, 2008
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 9, 2008
More
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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: 111854, 111857, 111856, 124261.