Hail, Cherokee
- When
- September 10, 11:25 AM CST to 11:35 AM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County, Cherokee
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.750, -95.550
Hail in Iowa, September 10, 1996
Hail up to tennis ball size fell in and near Cherokee, causing considerable damage to vehicles and windows and some damage to buildings other than to windows. The hail also caused some spotty crop damage.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Hail up to tennis ball size fell in and near Cherokee, causing considerable damage to vehicles and windows and some damage to buildings other than to windows. The hail also caused some spotty crop damage. No damage estimates to property or crops were available.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5564449.