On this Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, strong to severe thunderstorms tracked into western portions of South Central Nebraska for the second consecutive night. Also for the second night in a row, the Ord airport measured a severe wind gust, this time topping out at 67 MPH shortly before 1230 am CDT as a powerful outflow boundary surged nearly 15 miles out ahead of a broken line of storms approaching from the west. The most notable storm of the night, however, was an outflow-dominant supercell that developed on the more-organized south end of the line as it pushed in from southwest Nebraska. The brunt of this storm blasted Gosper County as it entered the local area between 1230-130 am CDT, producing a swath of crop damage mainly in southern portions of the county thanks to the combination of quarter to golf ball size hail, and estimated wind gusts of 60-80 MPH. Although the worst part of the storm quickly weakened as it passed east-northeast into Phelps and Dawson counties, it still yielded quarter size hail and a downed power line east-southeast of Smithfield, and a measured 59 MPH gust roughly halfway between Lexington and Eddyville. By 2 am CDT, all storms had weakened below severe limits, but multiple clusters of sometimes-strong storms persisted through the night across several counties mainly along and north of Highway 6, at times producing hail up to nickel size and wind gusts up to around 50 MPH. The back edge of all thunderstorm activity finally exited the far eastern counties of South Central Nebraska along Highway 81 around 630 am CDT on the 23rd.
Backing up to the very beginning of this event, an isolated strong storm rapidly sprung up as early as 5-6 pm CDT on the 22nd in western Dawson County, but only produced nickel size hail in the Gothenburg area before weakening and fading away. Thereafter, South Central Nebraska experienced a lull of several hours before the aforementioned broken line of severe storms initially raced into the area from the west between 11pm-midnight CDT. In general, the brunt of thunderstorm activity on this night focused near a west-southwest to east-northeast oriented quasi-stationary front/outflow boundary stretched across the heart of Nebraska. In the mid-upper levels, forcing was tied to low-amplitude disturbances passing through modestly strong southwesterly flow, along the periphery of a broad trough anchored by a vigorous Northern Rockies vorticity max. In addition to convergence along the aforementioned surface front, the nocturnal maintenance of storms was augmented warm air advection evident at 850 millibars along a 40-50 knot low level jet. Mesoscale severe weather parameters around midnight CDT in South Central Nebraska featured most-unstable CAPE around 1500 J/kg in the presence of seasonably strong 0-6 kilometer deep layer wind shear of 40+ knots.

Hail in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 22-JUN-13 23:56:00 to 22-JUN-13 23:56:00 (CST-6)
Location: ELWOOD
Magnitude: 1.00 
Property damage: 15.00K
Crop damage: 150.00K
Reported by: Storm Chaser

Quarter size hail occurred along with estimated wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph on Highway 283 near mile marker 30.

Thunderstorm Wind in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 22-JUN-13 23:56:00 to 22-JUN-13 23:56:00 (CST-6)
Location: ELWOOD
Magnitude: 61.00 EG
Property damage: 15.00K
Crop damage: 150.00K
Reported by: Storm Chaser

Wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph occurred along with quarter size hail on Highway 283 near mile marker 30.

Thunderstorm Wind in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:00:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:07:00 (CST-6)
Location: ELWOOD
Magnitude: 52.00 EG
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 3.00M
Reported by: Emergency Manager

Crop damage occurred about 2 miles north of the Gosper and Furnas County line. This damage occurred about 4 miles west of Highway 283 to about 3 miles east of Highway 283. The damage occurred from a combination of thunderstorm wind gusts and hail. The time of the event was estimated from radar data.

Thunderstorm Wind in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:00:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:00:00 (CST-6)
Location: ELWOOD
Magnitude: 70.00 EG
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 1.00M
Reported by: Storm Chaser

Estimated wind gusts of 80 mph along with golf ball size hail occurred. The hail was reported to be falling horizontally with the strong wind.

Thunderstorm Wind in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:19:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:19:00 (CST-6)
Location: SMITHFIELD
Magnitude: 52.00 EG
Property damage: 1.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Emergency Manager

There was a downed power line with an adjacent tree on fire as a result. One inch diameter hail also fell.

Hail in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:19:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:19:00 (CST-6)
Location: SMITHFIELD
Magnitude: 1.00 
Property damage: 1.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Emergency Manager

There was a downed power line with an adjacent tree on fire as a result. One inch diameter hail also fell.

Hail in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:00:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:00:00 (CST-6)
Location: ELWOOD
Magnitude: 1.75 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Storm Chaser

The golf ball hail was falling horizontally with estimated 80 mph winds.

Hail in DAWSON, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:30:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:30:00 (CST-6)
Location: LEXINGTON
Magnitude: 0.75 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Hail in KEARNEY, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 01:18:00 to 23-JUN-13 01:18:00 (CST-6)
Location: AXTELL
Magnitude: 0.75 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Storm Chaser

Hail in HALL, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 02:10:00 to 23-JUN-13 02:10:00 (CST-6)
Location: ALDA
Magnitude: 0.88 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Hail was ongoing at the time of the report.

Hail in BUFFALO, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 01:47:00 to 23-JUN-13 01:47:00 (CST-6)
Location: GIBBON
Magnitude: 0.75 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Public

Penny-size hail covered Interstate 80.

Thunderstorm Wind in DAWSON, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:30:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:30:00 (CST-6)
Location: EDDYVILLE
Magnitude: 51.00 MG
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Mesonet

A measured wind gust of 59 mph occurred.

Hail in DAWSON, NEBRASKA
From 22-JUN-13 17:02:00 to 22-JUN-13 17:02:00 (CST-6)
Location: GOTHENBURG
Magnitude: 0.88 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Trained Spotter

Thunderstorm Wind in VALLEY, NEBRASKA
From 22-JUN-13 23:23:00 to 22-JUN-13 23:23:00 (CST-6)
Location: (ODX)SHARP FLD ORD
Magnitude: 58.00 MG
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: ASOS

A 67 mph wind gust was measured with automated equipment from the ASOS at Evelyn Sharp Field (Ord Airport).

Hail in GOSPER, NEBRASKA
From 23-JUN-13 00:08:00 to 23-JUN-13 00:08:00 (CST-6)
Location: ELWOOD
Magnitude: 1.00 
Property damage: 0.00K
Crop damage: 0.00K
Reported by: Law Enforcement

The deputy sheriff reported one inch hail and heavy rain.