A bowing line of thunderstorms produced strong winds and large hail across southwest Nebraska during the evening hours.
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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.
The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
A bowing line of thunderstorms produced strong winds and large hail across southwest Nebraska during the evening hours.
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 Jun 25, 2:08 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 308 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2009 .SYNOPSIS... H5 RIDGE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE CENTRAL CONUS WITH TROUGHS ON BOTH COASTS AS SEEN IN VISIBLE. && .DISCUSSION... MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN NEAR TERM AND WILL USE A BLEND FOR THE FORECAST. MID AND HIGH CLOUDS CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE AS THEY MOVE INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. MASSIVE SB CAPES THIS AFTERNOON WITH UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LAYER. PWATS 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL AND STORM MOTION 7KTS. STRONG CAP OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA. HAVE INCREASED POPS TO THE WEST. FRIDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WITH GOOD FORCING IN THE 700MB TO 850MB LAYER. TDS IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S. CAPES NOT AS HIGH BUT AMPLE FORCING WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND A 40+KT LLJ FEEDING INTO THE AREA JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER. TEMPERATURES TO COOL SATURDAY AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA. HAVE DROPPED HIGHS INTO THE 80S THIS WEEKEND. EXTENDED MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT HAVE NOT MADE TOO MANY MODIFICATIONS AND FOLLOWED THE GFS. THE H5 RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS AGAIN SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY. ENSEMBLE GUIDANCE ONLY ONE STANDARD DEVIATION WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S. NEXT NORTHERN SYSTEM TO IMPACT CWA ON TUESDAY NIGHT WEDNESDAY. HAVE RETAINED SCHC. LEFT THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST DRY. && .AVIATION... NEAR TERM MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE UPPER RIDGE TO AMPLIFY AND BUILD EAST ON FRIDAY. TONIGHT DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST THIS EVENING WITH CONVECTION ON THE HIGH PLAINS TO MOVE NORTHEAST INITIALLY THEN MORE EAST OVERNIGHT. AT 18Z WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATED THE NORTH AND CENTRAL PLAINS AS WEAK BOUNDARIES WILL SERVE AS FOCUSES FOR CONVECTION WITH THE HEATING OF THE DAY. VISUAL FLIGHT RULES ARE ANTICIPATED AT TERMINALS KLBF AND KVTN WITH KLBF MOST LIKELY TO BE IMPACTED BY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. IN THE KLBF TERMINAL USED VCTS AS IMPACTS BY CONVECTION MAY BE LATE WITH 00Z TAF ISSUANCE TO PROVIDE BETTER DEFINITION AS TO AREAL COVERAGE FOR STORMS TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL BE HIGH BASED WHILE BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE DEEPENS OVERNIGHT FOR CEILINGS TO LOWER TO 070 TO 090 KFT TOWARD DAYBREAK FRIDAY. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM/EXTENDED...POWER AVIATION...KECK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 234 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2009 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-261000- 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- 234 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2009 /134 PM MDT THU JUN 25 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...COMBINED WITH APPROACHING DISTURBANCES...WILL LEAD TO ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. STRONG INSTABILITY AND SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA...THE GREATEST THREAT FOR ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS WEST OF A LINE FROM VALENTINE TO STOCKVILLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA LATE ON FRIDAY. AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES EAST...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN AREAS WEST OF HIGHWAY 83. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER... HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE KECK
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:15 UTC.
7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind driven hail shredded the vinyl siding on a home and broke a three-pane thick window on a home. The hail also severely damaged crops and center pivot irrigation systems.
The strong winds caused tree damage and power outages.
Marble to golfball size hail fell for 10 minutes.
The hail destroyed corn crops.
Strong winds broke off large tree limbs.
Jagged golfball size hail broke a window in a home.
Strong winds and small hail were reported by a cooperative observer.
A sheriff deputy estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph along Highway 25.
Large hail damaged numerous vehicles.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, June 2009
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: 173716, 169327, 169332, 169329, 169328, 169333, 169330, 169334, 169335, 169337, 169331, 169336.