Hail, Bond
- When
- June 14, 5:48 PM CST
- Where
- Bond County, Old Ripley
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -89.570
Hail in Illinois, June 14, 1998
Amateur radio spotters reported golfball size hail.
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 LSX wrote it up.
Amateur radio spotters reported golfball size hail.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:49 UTC.
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
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Iowa, June 14, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, June 14 to 16, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 1998
- Flash Flood in North Dakota, June 14, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 14, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 14, 1998
- Flash Flooding in New York, June 14, 1998
- Tornadoes in Illinois, June 14, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 14, 1998
- Flooding in Maine, June 14 to 16, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 14 to 15, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 1998
More
Every storm in Illinois in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, June 1998
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: 5648767.