Hail, Fillmore
- When
- June 19, 6:46 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County, 2 mi E of Ostrander
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.620, -92.400
Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 1997
An isolated severe thunderstorm produced a brief tornado and hail as large as golf balls.
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
- $8,000
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Events
- 6
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 ARX wrote it up.
An isolated severe thunderstorm produced a brief tornado and hail as large as golf balls.
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:43 UTC.
Event by event
5 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Fillmore
- When
- June 19, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County, Cherry Grove
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Coordinates
- 43.580, -92.280
Hail, Fillmore
- When
- June 19, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County, Harmony
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.550, -92.020
Hail, Fillmore
- When
- June 19, 7:56 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County, Harmony
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.550, -92.020
Tornado, Fillmore
- When
- June 19, 8:07 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County, 2 mi NW of Harmony
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.570, -92.050
Hail, Houston
- When
- June 19, 9:19 PM CST
- Where
- Houston County, Caledonia
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Crop damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 43.630, -91.500
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
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- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 19, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 19, 1997
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 19, 1997
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1997Warnings in Minnesota, June 1997
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: 5603582, 5603581, 5603580, 5603583, 5603584, 5603579.