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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 07:49:19 EDT

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Here is more information on this and other hail in the Nebraska storms,
from the AP, apparently the "big one" was just short of the record
Coffeyville hailstone.

Article and PHOTO of hailstone:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=36&u_sid=778750

AP Article with more details:

"DESHLER, Neb. - Tornadoes, up to a foot of rain and hail as big as
cantaloupes pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas, killing one man
and leveling at least four homes.

Aurora, about 70 miles west of Lincoln, was battered by hailstones
measuring 4 1/2 inches across Sunday.

"When it came down it looked just like someone dropping volleyballs down,"
said Dale Obermeier, a weather service spotter in Aurora who said the hail
dug craters in his yard. He said one resident reported the hail punched a
hole in his roof that was large enough for him to crawl through.

At least one hailstone was the size of a cantaloupe, measuring 6 1/2 inches
in diameter, said Ryan McCammon, a National Weather Service
(<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22National%20Weather%20Service%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news
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<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Executive_Branch/Departments_and_Agencies/Department_of_Commerce/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration/National_Weather_Service/>web
sites) meteorologist in Hastings. That's just one-eighth of an inch smaller
than the national record holder, which was found in 1970 at Coffeyville, Kan. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030624/ap_on_re_us/nebraska_tornadoes_15

At 01:02 AM 6/23/2003 -0300, you wrote:

>NWUS53 KGID 230337
>LSRGID
>
>PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
>NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
>1035 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
>
>TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
> ....COUNTY LOCATION....
>
>0955 PM AURORA NE VOLLEYBALL SIZE HAIL
>06/22/03 HAMILTON REPORTED BY STORM
> SPOTTER. HOLES IN
> NEIGHBORS ROOF BIG
> ENOUGH TO CRAWL THROUGH
>
>

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