Hail, Olmsted
- When
- June 24, 8:21 PM CST
- Where
- Olmsted County, Byron
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.030, -92.650
Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 24, 1998
A brief tornado touched down in a corn field near Byron with little 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
- $35,000
- Crop damage
- $25,000
- 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.
Hail up to golf ball size was reported by storm spotters and law enforcement officials.A brief tornado touched down in a corn field near Byron with little damage.
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:20 UTC.
Event by event
5 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Olmsted
- When
- June 24, 8:33 PM CST to 8:36 PM CST
- Where
- Olmsted County, 2 mi S of Byron
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Crop damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -92.650
Hail, Olmsted
- When
- June 24, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Olmsted County, 4 mi NW of Rochester
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.070, -92.520
Hail, Wabasha
- When
- June 24, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Wabasha County, 5 mi N of Elgin
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.200, -92.250
Hail, Wabasha
- When
- June 24, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Wabasha County, Plainview
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.170, -92.170
Hail, Wabasha
- When
- June 24, 9:56 PM CST
- Where
- Wabasha County, Kellogg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.320, -92.000
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
- Heat in Illinois, June 24 to 28, 1998
- Tornado in Ohio, June 24, 1998
- Heat in Florida, June 24, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 24 to 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 24 to 25, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, June 24, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 24, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, June 24 to 27, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 24, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 24, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, June 24, 1998
- Hail in Wisconsin, June 24, 1998
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Minnesota, 1998Warnings in Minnesota, 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: 5652702, 5652707, 5652703, 5652704, 5652705, 5652706.