Hail, Antelope
- When
- June 14, 6:31 PM CST
- Where
- Antelope County, 2.07 mi S of Elgin
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.950, -98.080
Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 14, 2011
A cluster of thunderstorms developed along a cold front in north central Nebraska during the late afternoon of June 14. These storms tracked southeast during the evening hours and produced a few reports of hail up to quarter-size.
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
- 6
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.
A cluster of thunderstorms developed along a cold front in north central Nebraska during the late afternoon of June 14. These storms tracked southeast during the evening hours and produced a few reports of hail up to quarter-size. Wind gusts from the storms were generally 40 to 50 mph but a few stronger gusts were reported.
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 Jun 14, 3:41 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:41 PM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 441 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. BRIEF DISC...BUSY WITH TOR WATCH AND HYDRO ISSUES. ENVIRONMENT THIS AFTN HAS BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE WITH MUCAPES AROUND 4000J/KG IN THE VICINITY OF SFC LOW PRESSURE CENTERED IN NERN KS. INGREDIENTS AVAILABLE FOR TORNADIC STORMS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS OVER SOUTHWEST IA AND MOST OF NRN MO. PORTIONS OF OUR IA CWA DOES FALL WITHIN THE AREA OF CONCERN WITH COMBINATION OF SHEAR/INSTABILITY. QUICK LOOK AT UPDATED RUC13 COMPOSITE PARAMETERS THOUGH...FACTORING IN EFFECTIVE SHEAR...SUGGESTING BEST POTENTIAL FOR SVR STORMS THIS EVENING WILL BE FOUND IN NW MO. OTHERWISE HAVE POPS IN FCST FROM LATE WED NIGHT THRU FRIDAY NIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH A MEANDERING SFC BNDRY OVER THE CNTRL PLAINS AND SERIES OF IMPULSES EJECTING OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. ON THE WHOLE NO MAJOR CHANGES MADE DUE TO GFS/CMC/ECM SURFACE FEATURES LACKING AGREEMENT REGARDING WHERE/WHEN SFC LOWS DEEPEN AND MOVE...AS WELL AS MOVEMENT OF ATTENDANT FRONTS. WILL THEREFORE TRY TO USE SOME SORT OF COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE 3 AND PLAN ON FOCUSING POPS DURING THE OVERNIGHT PDS...AND ONLY SLGT DAYTIME POPS. FRIDAY NIGHT...VORT MAX OVER MT LIFTING INTO CANADA APPEARS TO SHOVE A COLD FRONT THRU THE NRN PLAINS WITH PCPN DEVELOPING OVER THE DAKOTAS WHERE MOISTURE CONTENT IS HIGHEST(PW 180% OF NORM). ON SATURDAY BROAD LONGWAVE TROF REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE WRN CONUS WITH SEVERAL IMPULSES NEAR THE 4 CORNERS EJECTING NEWD INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS. SFC LOW DEEPENS IN ERN CO BY AFTERNOON WITH STRONG MOISTURE POOLING ALONG DEVELOPING SFC BNDRY EXTENDING THRU NRN KS INTO IA. FLOW ALOFT ORIENTED SW-NE OVER THE PLAINS WILL LIKELY HINDER ANY SIGNIFICANT SFC BNDRY MOVEMENT THRU EARLY MONDAY MORNING WHEN WRN TROF AXIS BEGINS TO SLIDE EAST ACROSS THE ROCKIES. EXPECT THE SFC LOW WILL LIFT INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST BY LATE MONDAY AFTN WITH TRAILING COLD FRONT SWEEPING INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH...BOTH GFS AND ECM ADVERTISE POST- FRONTAL PCPN MONDAY NIGHT. SUPPOSE THAT COMBINATION OF DPVA ASSOCIATED WITH PASSING VORT MAX AND MID LVL WAA PROBABLY ENOUGH TO INCLUDE SLGT POPS OVERNIGHT. AS FOR TEMPS...DAY 7(TUESDAY) COLD FRONT WILL PROBABLY RESULT IN AFTN HIGHS SLIGHTLY BELOW NORM. DEE && .AVIATION... TAF SITES KOFK/KOMA/KLNK 18Z TAFS LOW STRATUS YIELDING MVFR/IFR CIGS ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA CONTINUES TO SLOWLY ERODE THIS AFTERNOON. ANTICIPATE KOFK AND KLNK WILL BE SLOWER TO RETURN TO VFR THAN KOMA. EXPECT ALL THREE SITES TO BECOME VFR AROUND 20/21Z. THE SURFACE LOW CURRENTLY POSITIONED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS WILL TRANSLATE EASTWARD INTO MISSOURI DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS RESULTING IN CONTINUED NORTHERLY/NORTHWESTERLY SURFACE FLOW OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA. FLOW BECOMES A BIT MORE WESTERLY DURING THE MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY. FOLTZ && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 4:07 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 507 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-150500- ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS- FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON- MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE- PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD- SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE- 507 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 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 WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA. THERE IS A THREAT THOUGH FOR SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...MAINLY FOR LOCATIONS SOUTH OF I-80. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE THE MAIN THREAT...BUT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS WELL. MODERATE TO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. SEVERE STORMS APPEAR POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY NIGHT. MODERATE TO SIGNIFICANT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER...WITH INCREASING RIVER LEVELS EXPECTED THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF THIS WEEK AS OUTFLOWS FROM GAVINS POINT DAM CONTINUE TO INCREASE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING IN MONTGOMERY AND PAGE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST IOWA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:07 PM CST, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA 707 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 NEZ016-017-031-150045- ANTELOPE NE-MADISON NE-PIERCE NE- 707 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHERN ANTELOPE...SOUTHWESTERN PIERCE AND NORTHWESTERN MADISON COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 702 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF ELGIN...OR 45 MILES WEST OF NORFOLK...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CLEARWATER... ELGIN... NELIGH... OAKDALE... MEADOW GROVE... TILDEN... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY. MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DERGAN
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:20 PM CST, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA 720 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 NEZ030-150100- BOONE NE- 720 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR BOONE COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SPALDING...OR 53 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CEDAR RAPIDS... ALBION... ST. EDWARD... PRIMROSE... LORETTO... THE HIGHWAY 14 AND 56 JUNCTION... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY. MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DERGAN
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 159 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:31 UTC.
Event by event
5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Boone
- When
- June 14, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County, 0.86 mi SW of Primrose
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.620, -98.240
Hail around dime-size was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 50 mph.
Thunderstorm Wind, Boone
- When
- June 14, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County, 5.48 mi SSW of Primrose
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.560, -98.280
A trained spotter estimated that thunderstorm winds reached 55 to 60 mph. The hail was accompanied by small hail which shredded some corn fields in the area.
Hail, Platte
- When
- June 14, 7:44 PM CST to 7:52 PM CST
- Where
- Platte County, 0.52 mi E of Columbus
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 41.430, -97.360
Hail of pea to dime-size fell in the Columbus area from 2 storms that were several minutes apart.
Hail, Butler
- When
- June 14, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County, 1.56 mi W of Octavia to 3 mi NW of Octavia
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 41.350, -97.080
The hail was mostly nickel-size but a few up to quarter-size fell west through northwest of Octavia.
Hail, Saunders
- When
- June 14, 9:03 PM CST
- Where
- Saunders County, 0.87 mi SE of Ashland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 41.040, -96.370
Dime-size hail was accompanied by winds estimated at around 50 mph.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood in Illinois, June 14, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 14, 2011
- Lightning Strikes in Illinois, June 14, 2011
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 14 to 15, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 14, 2011
- Flood in Iowa, June 14 to 15, 2011
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 14 to 15, 2011
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 14, 2011
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: 299764, 299765, 299771, 299766, 299768, 299770.