Hail, Sheridan
- When
- September 1, 5:05 PM MST
- Where
- Sheridan County, 12 mi NNW of Antioch
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 42.230, -102.670
Hail in Nebraska, September 1, 2008
Isolated thunderstorms moving through the Panhandle produced 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
- 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 LBF wrote it up.
Isolated thunderstorms moving through the Panhandle produced 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 Sep 1, 4:17 PM MST, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 4:17 PM MST, 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 617 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008 .UPDATE... UPDATED TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 245 PM CDT MON SEP 01 2008/ ..AFTER A TWO WEEK DRY SPELL FOR MOST AREAS...A GOOD CHANCE FOR RAINFALL EXPECTED TONIGHT... SYNOPSIS... A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDS FROM WEST OF VTN AND OGA THEN SOUTHWEST INTO NERN CO. A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF CUMULUS HAS DEVELOPED THIS AFTN. SFC DWPTS A RESPECTABLE 58 TO 65. WHAT IS MOST IMPRESSIVE WAS THE KLBF UPPER AIR SOUNDING WHICH INDICATED 1.62 INCHES. THIS IS SUBSTANTIALLY ABOVE NORMAL AT 200 PERCENT. IN FACT REGIONAL RAOBS ARE 150 TO OVER 200 PERCENT OF NORMAL. TEMPS AT 19Z ARE MAINLY IN THE MID 80S TO AROUND 90 EXCEPT BEHIND THE SFC TROUGH WHERE HIGHS HELD IN THE 70S. HAVE NOW REACHED TO POINT WHERE SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP. ISOLATED ACTIVITY ALREADY IN PROGRESS ALONG SFC TROUGH IN CHERRY COUNTY. WINDS THIS AFTN ARE HOLDING IN THE HIGHER WINDY CATEGORY EAST AND A WIND ADVISORY WAS NEVER NEEDED. DISCUSSION... HIGHEST PRECIP CHC ARE TONIGHT WITH UPPER JET AND COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. FOLLOWED THE SLOWER NAM WITH FROPA SWEEPING ACROSS AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE GFS STILL LOOKS TOO FAST BRINGING THE FRONT ACROSS ABOUT 3 HRS FASTER. THE NAM FCSTS PWS FROM 1.5-1.75 INCH TONIGHT. THUS HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WHERE TRAINING STORMS DEVELOP. THIS ALSO FCST BY HPC QPFS AND NAM/GFS MODEL QPF OUTPUT. HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS APPROACHING AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL WITH A QUARTER TO HALF INCH POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTH. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT ON TUESDAY...SOME LINGERING MORNING SHOWERS EXPECTED ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. HIGHS WILL BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER...ABOUT 15 TO 20 DEGREES COOLER...RANGING FROM 66 TO 72 DEGREES. A BREEZY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL OCCUR. HIGH PRESSURE WITH MAINLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A COOL NIGHT WITH LOWS OF 40 TO 45. A FEW UPPER 30S ARE EVEN POSSIBLE IN THE WEST. FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...COOL TEMPERATURE REGIME WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S AS A BROAD LONGWAVE TROUGH DIGS ACROSS THE NRN U.S. A BIT WARMER THURSDAY IN THE MID/UPPER 70S. EXTENDED PERIOD (THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE A COOL PERIOD. A COLD FRONT THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS WITH UNSETTLED WX THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVES THROUGH IN THE BROAD LONGWAVE TROUGH PATTERN ESTABLISHED. HIGHS TO RANGE FROM THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S WITH LOWS ON THE COOL SIDE IN THE MID/UPPER 40S. AVIATION... CEILING AND VISIBILITIES WILL LIKELY BE IMPACTED FROM 21Z TO 09Z AT TERMINALS KLBF AND KVTN AS COLD FRONT MOVES EAST FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. BEYOND THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS... CEILING MAY DROP TO MVFR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT BRIEFLY AS POST FRONT SHOWERS MOVE EAST FROM 06Z TO 09Z. BEYOND 15Z VFR CONDITIONS. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT /MIDNIGHT MDT/ TUESDAY FOR NEZ004>010-022>028-035>038-056-057-059-094. && ROBERG/POWER
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 1:05 PM MST, 4 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 305 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-020615- 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- 305 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008 /205 PM MDT MON SEP 1 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTH THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH EAST. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 2 FROM ANSLEY TO HALSEY THEN NORTH AND EAST TO THE BARTLETT AREA. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS WITH STORMS THAT REACH SEVERE LIMITS. HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER RATIOS WILL ALSO LEAD TO SOME LOCALES RECEIVING HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT ACROSS THE NORTH AND NORTH CENTRAL FORECAST AREAS. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE KECK
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 175 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:05 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Sheridan
- When
- September 1, 5:35 PM MST
- Where
- Sheridan County, 19.37 mi N of Ellsworth
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 42.350, -102.260
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
- Hurricane and Tornadoes in Louisiana, September 1 to 3, 2008
- Hurricane and Tornadoes in Louisiana, September 1 to 2, 2008
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, September 1 to 3, 2008
- Flash Flood and Debris Flows in Puerto Rico, September 1 to 3, 2008
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Mississippi, September 1 to 4, 2008
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 1 to 3, 2008
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in Arkansas, September 1 to 3, 2008
- Hurricane and Storm Surge in Mississippi, September 1 to 2, 2008
- Storm Surge in Alabama, September 1, 2008
- Storm Surge in Florida, September 1 to 2, 2008
- Storm Surge in Florida, September 1, 2008
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, September 1, 2008
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, September 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: 125736, 125737.