--- description: Storms containing heavy rain, hail and possible tornadoes swept across the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday title: Baseball-Size Hail Rains Down on Nebraska image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteea7d14590c4a8e3/6986961de53aba40394d3004/car-wreck-nebraska.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Baseball-Size Hail Rains Down on Nebraska as Thunderstorms Inundate Midwest by [David Stout](/author/david-stout/) ## David Stout Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2014 4:26 AM CUT  A car with its windows damaged by hail hangs over a creek following a severe thunderstorm in Blair, Neb., Tuesday, June 3, 2014. A car with its windows damaged by hail hangs over a creek following a severe thunderstorm in Blair, Neb., Tuesday, June 3, 2014.Nati Harnik—AP by [David Stout](/author/david-stout/) ## David Stout Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2014 4:26 AM CUT Hard rain and hailstones inundated large swaths of the Great Plains on Tuesday as officials issued tornado watches in Nebraska that will continue late into the evening in the Cornhusker State. “Storms may contain very heavy rain, large hail and a few tornadoes,” warned the National Weather Service in a [bulletin posted](http://www.weather.gov/ "undefined") on its website on Tuesday. Baseball-size hail reportedly fell across northeast Nebraska on Tuesday, causing extensive damage. The hail knocked out car windshields in affected areas, while the roof of at least one hotel in Missouri Valley, Iowa, was ripped off by high winds, according to [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/us/severe-weather/ "undefined"). The National Weather Service predicted that another string of heavy thunderstorms is likely to move across the heartland from the Texas panhandle to western South Dakota on Wednesday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2820902/hail-nebraska/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2820902/hail-nebraska/"},"headline":"Baseball-Size Hail Rains Down on Nebraska as Thunderstorms Inundate Midwest","datePublished":"2014-06-04T04:26:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:12:04.779Z","description":"Wild weather sweeps across the Midwest","url":"https://time.com/2820902/hail-nebraska/","keywords":["weather","Texas","Iowa","Midwest","nebraska","Tornadoes","south dakota"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteea7d14590c4a8e3/6986961de53aba40394d3004/car-wreck-nebraska.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Stout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-stout/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteea7d14590c4a8e3/6986961de53aba40394d3004/car-wreck-nebraska.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Severe Weather","caption":"Severe Weather","creditText":"Nati Harnik—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2820902/hail-nebraska/","name":"Baseball-Size Hail Rains Down on Nebraska as Thunderstorms Inundate Midwest"}}]}] ```