Hail, Harrison
- When
- July 22, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County, 4.12 mi E of Pisgah
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.830, -95.850
The hail was accompanied by strong winds but no estimate of the wind speed was given.
Hail in Iowa, July 22, 2009
Scattered thunderstorms developed in extreme western Iowa northeast of a warm front that was located in central Nebraska, aided by a disturbance dropping southeast in the upper levels. At least one storm became severe a little northeast of the Omaha area.
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
- 1
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.
Scattered thunderstorms developed in extreme western Iowa northeast of a warm front that was located in central Nebraska, aided by a disturbance dropping southeast in the upper levels. At least one storm became severe a little northeast of the Omaha area.
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 Jul 22, 2:10 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:10 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 310 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. 700MB NETWORK PROFILERS PICKING UP SUBTLE SHORTWAVE IN CNTRL NEB THIS AFTN. THIS ALONG WITH UPPER JET STREAK WAS HELPING INITIATE CELLS ACROSS THE STATE ALONG AXIS OF MLCAPES 1500-2000J/KG. EXPECT ACTIVITY WILL PERSIST UNTIL DECLINE OF DAYTIME HEATING. OTHERWISE... DRY AND PLEASANT CONDITIONS ON TAP THURSDAY AS FLOW ALOFT REMAINS OUT OF THE NW. FOBERT .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. INITIAL COLD AIRMASS SURGE COMING FRIDAY SWEEPS SWD THRU THE DAKOTAS/UPPER MIDWEST AND EVENTUALLY THE CNTRL PLAINS BY LATE AFTN. HOWEVER...BEST UPPER SUPPORT PROGGED OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST IN ASSOCIATION WITH POTENT VORT RUSHING ACROSS MN/WI. STILL...HIGH KI VALUES COUPLED WITH GOOD MID LEVEL QG-FORCING OVER THE CWA APPEARS ADEQUATE ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY SMALL POPS. SFC BNDRY CLEARS THE CWA LATE FRIDAY NIGHT WITH A STABLE AIRMASS EVENTUALLY FILTERING IN ON SATURDAY. QUESTION FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON IS WILL BE BE ABLE TO HIT ADVERTISED HIGHS IN THE LOW/MID 90S BEFORE FROPA. NAM/GFS MAX TEMP FCST FROM SOUNDINGS SEEM TO SUGGEST THE SAME. ATTM THINK MOS NUMBERS ARE REASONABLE AROUND 90 NORTH WITH LOW/MID 90S PROBABLE SOUTH. MEANWHILE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...HIGH CONFIDENCE REMOP COMPLIMENTED BY CMC-ENS AND OPERATIONAL MODELS CONTINUE TO DEPICT A STAGNANT LARGE SCALE PATTERN WITH ANOMALOUS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE PREVAILING OVER THE WRN CONUS WITH A DEEP TROF OVER THE EAST COAST. THUS RESULTING IN CONTINUED NW FLOW ALOFT OVER THE PLAINS AND PROBABLE BELOW NORM HIGHS WITH NEAR OR BELOW NORM LOWS. CHANCE FOR PCPN RETURNS MONDAY WITH THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT OUT OF THE NRN PLAINS. 06Z GFS BIT MORE GENEROUS THAN ECM WITH MOIST/INSTABILITY AT THE TIME OF FROPA THRU THE CWA. ENHANCING POSSIBLE PCPN IS EMBEDDED IMPULSES SLIDING DOWN BACK SIDE OF ERN TROF AND INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS. ECM AND GFS ARE GENERALLY IN AGREEMENT THAT THE SFC BNDRY WILL BE SLOW MOVING AS IT MIGRATE SOUTH...THEN EVENTUALLY STALLING SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF THE CWA BY TUESDAY EVENING. AM NOT CONVINCED ANY POST-FRONTAL PCPN WILL DEVELOP DESPITE CONTINUING FLOW OF IMPULSES PROGGED OVER THE PLAINS. ECM QVEC SEEM TO BE SUGGESTING ANY POTENTIAL LIFT VIA DPVA WILL GENERALLY BE OVERCOME BY PERSISTENT DEEP CAA OVER THE REGION. DEE && .AVIATION... 18Z TAFS. WEAK SURFACE PATTERN IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH NORTHWEST UPPER FLOW. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE 2221Z-2306Z BUT NO MENTION IN TAFS AT THIS TIME WITH VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. FOBERT && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 4:15 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 515 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-231215- MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT- PAGE-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON- STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER- SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE- JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- 515 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009 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 THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER A FEW ISOLATED STORMS COULD CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT OR THURSDAY. KERN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:10 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
410 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0402 PM HAIL 1 W COLUMBUS 41.43N 97.37W
07/22/2009 E1.00 INCH PLATTE NE TRAINED SPOTTER
HAIL ESTIMATED FROM PENNY UP TO QUARTER SIZE.
&&
BOUSTEADLocal storm report, Jul 22, 5:31 PM CST, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
631 PM CDT WED JUL 22 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0630 PM TSTM WND GST MILFORD 40.77N 97.05W
07/22/2009 E60 MPH SEWARD NE TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
KERNThe radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:06 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 22, 2009
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, July 22, 2009
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 22 to 23, 2009
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 22, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 22, 2009
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 22 to 23, 2009
- Flash Flooding and Flood in North Carolina, July 22 to 23, 2009
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, July 22, 2009
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 22, 2009
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 22, 2009
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, July 22, 2009
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, July 22, 2009
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 2009
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: 173928.