Hail, Cuming
- When
- August 13, 7:24 AM CST
- Where
- Cuming County, 3.6 mi SSE of Wisner
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.930, -96.910
Nickel-size hail covered the ground white near Wisner stripping some crops in the area.
Hail in Nebraska, August 13, 2009
Scattered thunderstorms developed over eastern Nebraska during the morning hours of August 13th. The thunderstorms developed as a modest low level jet ushered in warm and moist advection across eastern Nebraska.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
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- 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 over eastern Nebraska during the morning hours of August 13th. The thunderstorms developed as a modest low level jet ushered in warm and moist advection across eastern Nebraska. An isolated storm produced hail just under 1 inch in diameter.
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 13, 2:15 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:15 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 315 AM CDT THU AUG 13 2009 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED CONVECTION ALONG THE NORTHEAST BORDER EARLY THIS MORNING ASSOCIATED WITH MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE AND 850-700MB WAA. WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY SOME SLIGHT POPS 12-18Z ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER AS THIS SYSTEM WORKS ITS WAY EAST. DRY ELSEWHERE AND FOR TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY AS SURFACE SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS IN ADVANCE OF WESTERN TROUGH. MODELS SIMILAR IN INCREASING POPS FRIDAY NIGHT AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS A COMBINATION OF WARM ADVECTION AND SERIES OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. SURFACE FRONT ADDS TO FOCUS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS IT MOVES THROUGH. GENERALLY LITTLE CHANGE TO CURRENT FORECAST WITH CHANCE POPS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE SHORT TERM. HOT TEMPERATURES CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY IN ADVANCE OF THE SURFACE COLD FRONT. EXTENDED PERIOD STILL LOOKS INTERESTING WITH 00Z ECMWF KEEPING A SURFACE BOUNDARY IN THE AREA FOR MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK AND MAINTAINING A MORE AMPLIFIED WAVE OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES COMPARED TO THE GFS. NO CHANGE AT THIS TIME TO THE EXTENDED PART OF THE FORECAST. && .AVIATION... TAF SITES KOFK/KOMA/KLNK 06Z TAF ISSUANCE... VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING...HOWEVER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY AFFECT KOFK TAF SITE WITH BRIEF MVFR CONDITIONS THROUGH 18Z THURSDAY. INCREASING SOUTH FLOW AT AROUND FL020 WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR THIS MORNING AS 45KT WINDS OVERRIDE LIGHT SURFACE FLOW. OTHERWISE...TSRA ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY REMAIN NORTH OF ALL TAF SITES THROUGH 18Z WITH ONLY SCATTERED TO BROKEN MID LEVEL CLOUDS EXPECTED. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && FOBERT/DERGAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 3:32 AM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 432 AM CDT THU AUG 13 2009 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-132345- 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- 432 AM CDT THU AUG 13 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENDING THIS MORNING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA...NORTH OF AN ALBION NEBRASKA TO ONAWA IOWA LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA FROM FRIDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT AND A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE INTO THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT. FOBERT
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:25 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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 13 to 14, 2009
- Flash Flood in Georgia, August 13, 2009
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 13, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 13, 2009
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Utah, August 13 to 14, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, August 13 to 14, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, August 13, 2009
- Hail in North Dakota, August 13 to 14, 2009
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 13, 2009
- Flash Flood in Virginia, August 13, 2009
- Hail in Montana, August 13, 2009
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, August 13, 2009
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: 180894.