Skip to content
The public record 1996 to today

Nebraska hail history

The public federal storm record holds 2,268 days with hail somewhere in Nebraska since 1996, 1,915 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 57,293 reports. The largest on record is 7.00″ on 22 June 2003 in HAMILTON County. 32 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Nebraska wind history.

2,268

Days with hail on record, statewide

1,915

Days at 1.00″ or more

7.00in

Largest on record, Jun 2003

32

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Nebraska

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 La Vista 200 days
  2. 02 Ralston 198 days
  3. 03 Bellevue 197 days
  4. 04 Omaha 194 days
  5. 05 Papillion 193 days
  6. 06 North Platte 160 days
  7. 07 Scottsbluff 153 days
  8. 08 Hastings 141 days
  9. 09 Gering 136 days
  10. 10 Grand Island 128 days
  11. 11 Sidney 127 days
  12. 12 Lincoln 125 days
  13. 13 Gretna 124 days
  14. 14 Holdrege 111 days
  15. 15 Plattsmouth 110 days
  16. 16 Kearney 99 days
  17. 17 York 97 days
  18. 18 Alliance 95 days
  19. 19 Crete 89 days
  20. 20 Fremont 87 days
  21. 21 Lexington 87 days
  22. 22 McCook 86 days
  23. 23 Columbus 84 days
  24. 24 South Sioux City 84 days
  25. 25 Chadron 83 days
  26. 26 Blair 81 days
  27. 27 Seward 70 days
  28. 28 Nebraska City 67 days
  29. 29 Norfolk 60 days
  30. 30 Beatrice 58 days
Every place in Nebraska (32)

Hail days by year in Nebraska

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2009, with 91 days of hail, 79 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Nebraska

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Nebraska: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
22 Jun 2003 7.00″ Ground observation HAMILTON, NE
22 Jun 2003 7.00″ Ground observation Not stated
29 May 2022 6.00″ Ground observation Not stated
29 May 2022 6.00″ Ground observation LOUP, NE
12 Jun 2002 5.00″ Ground observation BUFFALO, NE
12 Jun 2002 5.00″ Ground observation Not stated
12 Jun 2002 5.00″ Ground observation BUFFALO, NE
12 Jun 2002 5.00″ Ground observation BUFFALO, NE

Hail days by month in Nebraska

Hail here is a June matter: 504 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Nebraska

The figures on this page are the record across Nebraska: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: the storm, the date, the measured size, the distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal record each figure came from, in a document that states its own method. Ready in minutes.

Suggestions by Google
  • First reports free
  • No card required
  • Ready in minutes

How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Nebraska by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 29 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.