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Brownville, NE hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Brownville city centroid, 1950 to present.

152hail events since 1950
97≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
3.00"largest on record · 1981-04-13
2024-04-30most recent hail event

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 2 2.75" (baseball)
2023 9 2.25" (hen egg)
2022 5 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2021 1 2.00" (hen egg)
2020 1 1.00" (quarter)
2019 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2018 3 1.00" (quarter)
2017 1 1.00" (quarter)
2016 8 1.25" (half dollar)
2015 1 0.88" (nickel)
2014 5 1.25" (half dollar)
2013 10 2.75" (baseball)
2012 6 2.00" (hen egg)

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2024-10-30 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 7.5 mi
2024-09-21 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 5.8 mi
2024-08-14 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 6.7 mi
2024-06-25 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 6.7 mi
2024-06-15 Thunderstorm Wind 69 mph 7.3 mi
2024-06-04 Thunderstorm Wind 69 mph 6.7 mi
2024-05-24 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 1.5 mi
2024-05-24 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 1.5 mi
2024-05-06 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 6.7 mi
2024-04-30 Hail 1.00" 9.6 mi

2024-10-30: “Downed power poles near Clay Street and Calhoun Street.”

2024-09-21: “A 59 miles per hour wind gust was measured on a personal weather station.”

2024-08-14: “A personal weather station measured a 58 miles per hour wind gust.”

Disputing a claim at a Brownville address?

This page covers the city. A claim dispute needs the record around your address: every NWS-recorded event within 1, 3 and 10 miles, the disputed date highlighted, citations formatted for an insurance appeal.

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NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-06-12