Hail in Nebraska
Every hail event the National Weather Service has filed in Nebraska, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
The most significant on the map
The most significant hail episodes in Nebraska.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 25,051
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 99
- Damage
- $3.0 billion
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 1980
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 6, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 5, 1964
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 8, 1965
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 16, 2014During the early morning hours of June 16th a warm, humid and unstable airmass rapidly returned to eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. As this air returned to the region, scattered thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours and continued into early afternoon.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 27, 1955
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 25, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, March 13, 1990
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Nebraska, June 21 to 30, 2024A series of shortwave troughs traversing the northern CONUS brought unsettled weather to the area for the end of June. On the 21st, a stationary front was draped across northeast Nebraska into Iowa.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 10, 1985
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 28, 1986
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 7, 1988
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 25, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 15, 1990
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 22 to 24, 2003Thunderstorms erupted during the evening in south-central Nebraska. One storm near Aurora produced very large hail. One stone measured by an NWS Storm Survey team was determined to be the largest sized stone to fall in the United States.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, October 4, 2013The same powerful storm system that produced severe weather across eastern Nebraska on October 3rd remain in the area on the 4th. A strong area of low pressure moved from eastern Colorado into southern South Dakota during the day.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 6, 1956
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, October 29, 1956
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 28, 1963
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 25 to 26, 2024On the morning of April 26th, a potent negatively-tilted shortwave trough ejected out into the central Plains. Upper air analysis shows a jet streak on the downstream side of this trough with substantial divergence aloft over Nebraska.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 30, 1961
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 15, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 4, 1955
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 8, 1955
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 2011With 11 confirmed tornadoes, several of them significant, this Monday afternoon proved to be the most active tornado day in over three years within South Central Nebraska, since 29 May 2008.
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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.