Hail, Brown
- When
- August 1, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.250, -94.970
Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 1, 1978
5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hennepin
- When
- August 1, 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Hennepin County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.820, -93.430
Tornado, Waseca
- When
- August 1, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Waseca County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 44.020, -93.730
Hail, Freeborn
- When
- August 1, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Freeborn County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.770, -93.570
Hail, Waseca
- When
- August 1, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Waseca County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.080, -93.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Mower
- When
- August 1, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Mower County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.720, -92.720
Hail, Freeborn
- When
- August 1, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Freeborn County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.770, -93.320
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Georgia, August 1, 1978
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 1, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 1, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 1, 1978
- Damaging Winds in Florida, August 1, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wyoming, August 1, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 1, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 1, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 1, 1978
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10054815, 10054816, 10054817, 10054818, 10054819, 10054820, 10054821.