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Pulverized and stripped down to black soil — that's what large hail and high winds left some corn and soybean fields near Seward and northern Lancaster County Tuesday night.

"There's just there's nothing left," Alan Tiemann said.

He put months of work and thousands of dollars of investments into some of his fields just east of Seward.

"Fertilizer, fuel prices, everything seems to be skyrocketing," Tiemann said.

His fields were spared in the previous storms this season but his luck ran out Tuesday night as a two-mile path of wind and hail swept through Seward County.

"Totally devastated everything and just took it down to black soil," Tiemann said.

The same supercell teed off on Melissa Delcamp's home.

"The tornado sirens went off, so I went downstairs and you could just hear the hail hitting and it sounded like baseballs just pounding the house," Delcamp said.

Her son Carson snapped photos of the golf ball-sized hail.

Some of the hail was piled a foot high near their house.

"Just about all the screens are shredded on the front. That one's broken through these are broken," Delcamp said.

Some of their car windows were also shattered. The siding on their nearby rental home was stripped.

"I know this can be fixed and be replaced. But these crops are things that you can't just you can't recoup that," Delcamp said.

Tiemann has crop insurance but it only covers the cost.

"When you're collecting insurance you're not making money," Tiemann said.

And it'll be risky to replant. He said because t's too late to get insurance for that crop.

He said even finding seed for short-season corn could be difficult.

"What are you going to yield? Will you get your return on your investment back out of it? Will it go to maturity what you know get an early frost?" Tiemann said.

He said even planting rye grass as a cover crop to keep the weeds down and reduce erosion costs money.

"This is just kind of piling on top when you lose a crop at this time of year," Tiemann said.

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