Hail, Scotts Bluff
- When
- June 20, 6:05 PM MST to 6:08 PM MST
- Where
- Scotts Bluff County, Gering
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.820, -103.670
Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 2010
Daytime heating in combination with increasing moisture provided an environment suitable for hail formation. The remaining stability capping the environment was eroded by mid afternoon.
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
- 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 CYS wrote it up.
Daytime heating in combination with increasing moisture provided an environment suitable for hail formation. The remaining stability capping the environment was eroded by mid afternoon.
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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 4:33 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 4:33 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 533 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010 .UPDATE TO AVIATION... SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY... CURRENTLY...CONVECTION FORMING ALONG A DISTINCT DRY LINE THAT EXTENDS FROM JUST WEST OF LARAMIE...NORTHEAST TO JUST EAST OF CASPER. RUC FORECAST FOR CINH THIS AFTERNOON SHOWING THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PORTION OF WYOMING...SAY FROM CHEYENNE TO WHEATLAND TO NORTHEASTERN WYOMING HAS LOST THE LOW LEVEL CAP AND CONVECTION HAS INCREASED ALONG THAT DRY LINE. STRATUS STILL PREVAILS OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...SO CONVECTION WILL INITIATE LATER OUT THAT WAY. SURFACE LOW EVIDENT ON SURFACE ANALYSIS OVER SALT LAKE CITY WITH UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHWEST IDAHO. FOR TONIGHT...UPPER LOW EXPECTED TO TRACK ACROSS WESTERN WYOMING WITH SURFACE LOW TRACKING ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE. SHOULD SEE A FAIRLY ACTIVE EVENING AS LOW LEVEL CAP BREAKS LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH CAPE VALUES IN THE 2000 J/KG RANGE ACROSS EASTERN WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. BY MONDAY...UPPER LOW AND DYNAMICS SHIFT NORTH INTO MONTANA AND SOUTH DAKOTA. LOOKS LIKE THE CWA SHOULD BE MUCH MORE STABLE TOMORROW OVER TODAY. REDUCED THE AREAL COVERAGE ON AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TO MAINLY OVER THE LARAMIE RANGE. TUESDAY LOOKS DRY AS DYNAMICS STAY NORTH OF OUR CWA. LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT...SHOWING A SUMMER WEATHER PATTERN ACROSS SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND WRN NEBRASKA THROUGH NEXT WEEK. MODELS SHOW UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY THROUGH NEXT WEEK. THE HIGH IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY NUDGE EASTWARD OVER TIME...ALLOWING A LONGWAVE TROUGH TO SETTLE OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AND WESTERN CANADA. WITH AN ACTIVE JET OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEK...IN ADDITION TO LOW TO MIDLEVEL MOISTURE PUSHING INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTH AND SEVERAL WEAK SHORTWAVES EJECTING NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE NRN AND CNTRL ROCKIES...EXPECT A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION INTO THE WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY EAST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE. KEPT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTORMS IN THE FORECAST FOR MAINLY ISOLATED COVERAGE...BUT DID EXTEND THE COVERAGE FURTHER WEST ALONG THE LARAMIE RANGE. HIGH TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEASONABLY WARM AND AROUND 80 ACROSS CARBON AND ALBANY COUNTIES OF WYOMING...WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S TO LOW 90S OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF WYOMING AND WRN NEBRASKA. A WARMING TREND IS EXPECTED LATE IN THE WEEK AS THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE PUSHES NORTHWARD ACROSS THE CNTRL AND NRN FRONT RANGE...WITH HIGHS POSSIBLY IN THE UPPER 80S TO MID 90S FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. && AVIATION...00Z TAF ISSUANCE. THUNDERSTORMS TO IMPACT NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE TAFS...KAIA...KCDR AND KBFF EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE EAST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE THROUGH 9 PM TONIGHT...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. EXPECT DISSIPATION OF THUNDERSTORMS BY MID EVENING WITH IFR STRATUS AND FOG DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT. && FIRE WEATHER... NO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS AT THIS TIME DUE TO FIRE DANGER IN THE VERY LOW TO MODERATE CATEGORY ACROSS THE DISTRICT. && HYDROLOGY... CONCERN CONTINUES FOR OUR EASTERN CWA WHERE RIVER CRESTS CONTINUE TO MOVE DOWNSTREAM. RELEASES FROM WHEATLAND RESERVOIR NUMBER 2 AND GRAY ROCKS ARE KEEPING THE LARAMIE RIVER ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. ADDITIONALLY CRESTS FROM THE UPPER NORTH PLATTE ARE NOW MAKING THEIR WAY INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE WITH FLOODING FORECAST AT BOTH HENRY...MINITARE AND MITCHELL ALONG THE PLATTE RIVER. THESE HIGH WATERS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK AS RELEASES CONTINUE. && .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...CLAYCOMB LONG TERM...TJT
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 12:10 PM MST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 110 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010 NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ101>103-106>108-116>119- 211515- DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE- NORTH SIOUX-SOUTH SIOUX-CONVERSE COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS- NIOBRARA COUNTY-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE- CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- EAST PLATTE COUNTY-GOSHEN COUNTY-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE- SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS-CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY- EAST LARAMIE COUNTY- 110 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...SOUTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD FORM OVER PARTS OF FAR EASTERN WYOMING DURING THE AFTERNOON AND MOVE OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER THE PANHANDLE WITH LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREAT. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY EAST OF A DOUGLAS TO CHEYENNE LINE IN WYOMING. FOR NOW...THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE REMAINS CAPPED AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR LATER THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN ON MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH A FEW STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE NEEDED AFTER 2 PM TODAY FOR LOCATION EAST OF A LINE FROM DOUGLAS TO CHEYENNE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE WYZ104-105-109>115-211515- FERRIS/SEMINOE/SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS-SHIRLEY BASIN- CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY-NORTH SNOWY RANGE FOOTHILLS- SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY-SIERRA MADRE RANGE- UPPER NORTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN-SNOWY RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY- 110 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:42 PM MST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 542 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010 WYZ101-210015- CONVERSE COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS WY- 542 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN CONVERSE COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM MDT... AT 537 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARDY RANCH AIR STRIP...OR 35 MILES NORTH OF DOUGLAS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BILL AROUND 615 PM MDT. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS. THE STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 59 ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF BILL AROUND 615 PM. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY....AND A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS....FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RUBIN
Local storm report, Jun 20, 4:53 PM MST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
553 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0545 PM TORNADO 16 W BILL 43.21N 105.58W
06/20/2010 CONVERSE WY TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO ON THE GROUND FOR 5 MINUTES 30
MILES NORTH/NORTHEAST OF GLENROCK.
&&
HAHNLocal storm report, Jun 20, 4:59 PM MST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
559 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0557 PM HAIL 6 N LA GRANGE 41.73N 104.16W
06/20/2010 E1.50 INCH GOSHEN WY TRAINED SPOTTER
HAIL FROM QUARTER SIZE TO PING PONG BALL SIZE.
&&
SRUBINLocal storm report, Jun 20, 5:04 PM MST, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
604 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0537 PM HAIL 3 N HAWK SPRINGS 41.83N 104.27W
06/20/2010 E1.00 INCH GOSHEN WY TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DDEALLocal storm report, Jun 20, 5:08 PM MST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
608 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0522 PM TORNADO 15 WSW BILL 43.13N 105.53W
06/20/2010 CONVERSE WY STORM CHASER
&&
DDEALLocal storm report, Jun 20, 5:39 PM MST, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
639 PM MDT SUN JUN 20 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0631 PM HAIL 3 N STEGALL 41.91N 103.95W
06/20/2010 E0.25 INCH SCOTTS BLUFF NE TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DDEALThe radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:04 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
- Heat in Texas, June 20, 2010
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Montana, June 20 to 21, 2010
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, June 20, 2010
- Wildfire in Arizona, June 20 to 30, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Nebraska, June 20 to 29, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 20, 2010
- Drought in Louisiana, June 20 to 30, 2010
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 2010
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 20, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 20, 2010
- Heat in Kentucky, June 20 to 23, 2010
- Heat in Missouri, June 20 to 23, 2010
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, June 2010
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: 233592.