Hail in Nebraska, May 6, 2008

Name: Hail in Nebraska, May 6, 2008
Start: 2008-05-06T15:10
End: 2008-05-06T15:11
Location: Nebraska

May 6, 2008 · NWS FSD · 2 events in 1 county or zone

Thunderstorms produced marginally large hail at two locations in extreme northeast Nebraska during the afternoon of May 6th.

Where it happened

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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 FSD wrote it up.

Thunderstorms produced marginally large hail at two locations in extreme northeast Nebraska during the afternoon of May 6th.

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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 6, 2:30 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:30 PM CST, 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
330 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008

.DISCUSSION...

HAIL AND HIGH WIND BOW ECHO COMPLEX EXPCD TO MOVE EWD FM FAR SERN SD
THRU NWRN IA THRU EARLY TNGT...WITH SCT SHRA/TSRA ELSEWHERE. SOME
REDEVELOPMENT STILL EXPCD AHEAD OF CDFNT MOVG FM CNTRL SD THRU
EVE...BUT RESPONSIBLE SHORT WAVE SHOULD PUSH MOST EVERYTHING EAST OF
AREA BY MIDN. CDFNT MOVG SEWD OVR CWA DURG NGT WILL BE FLWD BY NWLY
FLOW OF COOLER AIR AND ASSCD SC DECK...BUT AIR MASS BECOMES RATHER
DRY TO THE NORTH. SC DECK SHOULD AFFECT MAINLY NRN TO ERN CWA...BUT
SHOULD NOT BE TOO WDSPRD OR SOLID.

WITH PCPN OUT FOR WED WE SHUD FACE A DRY DAY WITH PTCLDY SKIES AND
TEMPS WHICH ARE SEASONBLY COOL...BREEZY CONDS ADDING TO THE COOL
FEELING ESPLY E...BUT STILL NOT BAD GIVEN SOME REALLY COOL TEMPS
THIS SPRING. WE THEN AWAIT THE NEXT SYS MOVG IN FROM THE W LATE WED
NGT AND THU. ADVANCE OF THIS SYS OVER AREA WILL APPARNTLY BE FAIRLY
SLOW AFTER MORE RPD DVLPMNT OVER THE FAR WRN PART OF FCST AREA. THRU
THU BEST RAIN POTENTL WILL BE OUT W...MOVG ITO THE E THU NGT. ECMFW
AGN THE MOST BULLISH ON THIS SYS BUT GFS AND NAM NOT BAD. AM HOLDING
OUT ON POPS A LTL DUE TO TIMING ISSUES BUT SUSPECT BY ERY MRNG FCST
WE WILL BE ABLE TO GO WITH SOME LIKELIES...AT LEAST. HALF DECENT
UPPER SUPPORT WILL COMBINE WITH EXCELLENT THERMAL LIFT POTENTL. ENUF
MOISTR SHUD BE AVBL FOR DECENT RAIN...THO PCPN CVRG CUD BE LINKED TO
DVLPMNT OF CONVECTN IN THE MORE UNSTBL AIR TO THE S OF AREA.
STILL...I BE CAREFUL ABOUT PLANNING ANY PICNICS FOR THU OVER FCST
AREA ESPLY OUT W.

FRI SHUD BE ANOTHER BREAK DAY BEFORE A SYS ARRIVES FOR SAT. STILL
ANOTHER DRY DAY MOST OF AREA SUN THEN ANOTHER SYS MAY AFFECT THE
AREA MON/TUE...WHICH ECMWF MAKES QUITE STG. UNCERTAINTY WITH
TIMING...STRNGTH...AND TEMPS GROW GREATER WITH EACH SYS. GFS MAKES
THINGS QUITE COOL LATE IN FCST PD...COOLR THAN THE UPPER 50S TO MID
60S I AM GOING WITH. OF COURSE ECMWF WITH ITS STRONG SYS LATE IN PD
WARMS IT UP WELL AHD OF SYS. HPC GUIDNCE LOOKS LIKE GOOD COMPROMISE
FOR NOW.

&&

.AVIATION...
MOSTLY VFR...BUT MVFR CONDITIONS IN SCT STRONGER TSTMS MOVG EWD
MAINLY SERN CWA THRU EARLY TNGT. MORE MVFR CIGS PSBL WITH SC MOVG
SEWD OVR CWA FM 07Z TO 16Z IN NWLY FLOW BEHIND CDFNT.

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
IA...NONE.
NE...NONE.

&&

RYRHOLM/WILLIAMS

Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 10:33 AM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1133 AM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-071200-
AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA-
CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE-
DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON-
IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN-
LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN-
OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN-
SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON-
1133 AM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90
THIS AFTERNOON...WITH HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE POSSIBLE. IN THE
MEANTIME...A STRONGER COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA AROUND NOONTIME WILL MOVE EASTWARD TO THE SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 90 OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...FAR NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA...AND INTO NORTHWEST IOWA LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
EARLY TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND WIND
GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS.
THE STRONGEST STORMS SHOULD BE NEAR THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY.

FLOODING...
MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON THE LITTLE SIOUX RIVER FROM NORTH
OF SPENCER TO NEAR LINN GROVE IN NORTHWEST IOWA. THE RIVER SHOULD
FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY WEDNESDAY...UNLESS SIGNIFICANT RAIN
FALLS TUESDAY OR TUESDAY NIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY BY NOON TIME IN SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA...BY 3 PM WEST OF INTERSTATE 29...AND BY 5 PM EAST
OF INTERSTATE 29.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

RSR

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 2:28 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
328 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0318 PM     HAIL             VERMILLION              42.78N 96.93W
05/06/2008  E0.75 INCH       CLAY               SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            IN ADDITION TO PENNY SIZED HAIL, THERE WERE WIND GUSTS TO
            AROUND 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN.

&&

TRM

Local storm report, May 6, 2:35 PM CST, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
335 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0315 PM     TSTM WND GST     8 S BERESFORD           42.96N 96.79W
05/06/2008  E60 MPH          UNION              SD   PUBLIC

            60 MPH WIND GUSTS BROKE TREE BRANCHES DOWN AND BLEW STUFF
            AROUND ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HOUSE.

&&

TRM

Local storm report, May 6, 2:42 PM CST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
342 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0337 PM     HAIL             HAWARDEN                43.00N 96.48W
05/06/2008  E1.00 INCH       SIOUX              IA   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

TRM

Local storm report, May 6, 2:43 PM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
343 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0337 PM     TSTM WND GST     HAWARDEN                43.00N 96.48W
05/06/2008  E60 MPH          SIOUX              IA   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

TRM

Local storm report, May 6, 2:50 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
350 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0340 PM     HAIL             4 SSW CRAIG             42.84N 96.35W
05/06/2008  E0.75 INCH       PLYMOUTH           IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

TRM

Local storm report, May 6, 3:09 PM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
409 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0357 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 NNW LE MARS           42.83N 96.20W
05/06/2008  M64 MPH          PLYMOUTH           IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

TRM

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:11 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dixon

When: May 6, 3:10 PM CST
Where: Dixon County, 3.49 mi N of Hurleys Arpt
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 42.570, -96.810

Hail, Dixon

When: May 6, 3:11 PM CST
Where: Dixon County, 2.13 mi NNW of Hurleys Arpt
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: Public
Coordinates: 42.550, -96.830

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2008 Every state in 2008 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, May 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: 105878, 105880.