Hail, La Salle
- When
- April 9, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- La Salle County, 5 mi N of Rutland
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.050, -89.050
Hail in Illinois, April 9, 2001
Trained spotters reported a rotating wall cloud and funnel cloud as a storm moved from near Wenona to Reading. The storm produced 1 inch hail and heavy rain which flooded roads.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
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 LOT wrote it up.
Trained spotters reported a rotating wall cloud and funnel cloud as a storm moved from near Wenona to Reading. The storm produced 1 inch hail and heavy rain which flooded roads.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 9, 1:30 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 1:30 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 230 PM CDT MON APR 9 2001 MIDDAY ANALYSIS MAINTAINING WARM FNT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SRN COUNTIES OF CWA TO I-80. NOT MUCH MORE ACTIVITY OCCURRING SINCE LAST WAVES LATE THIS MRNG. SCALLOPED CU IN ERN IA SUSPICIOUS LOOKING AMID SOME LEFTOVER OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. COOLING NELY WINDS KEEPING SFC LVL STABLE SO MAIN CONCERN IS EITHER ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY OR A WAVE ALOFT RIPPLING THRU. THIS LATTER IS APPARENTLY WHAT MODELS ARE FISHING FOR LATE TONIGHT AS A WEAK MID LVL TROF RIPPLES AROUND THE 7H RIDGE. THIS THREAT NOT MUCH MORE THAN 30% AND AM DEBATING WHETHER THAT MUCH. LATEST SWOMCD IS PRETTY SURE THERE WILL BE DEVELOPMENT ALONG WRM FNTL BOUNDARY LATE THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING. SO DIFFICULT TO LEAVE OUT POP ERY TNGT. THE BEST LIFT FOR PCPN DEVELOPMENT ON MODELS SEEMS TO BE CONFINED TO SOUTH OF PIA. HOWEVER INITIAL PLACEMENT OF WARM FNT ON MODELS SEEMS A LITTLE TOO SOUTH AND WONDER IF IT IS WISER TO CONSIDER POSSIBILITY OF THUNDER FURTHER NORTH THAN MODELS. NOW ABOUT CLDS AND VSBY. PLENTY OF LOW CLOUD COVER SPREADING SOUTH FROM WISCONSIN AND LAKE MICH...NOT TO MENTION IOWA. WITH NERLY WINDS OVER MOST OF CWA (NORTH OF WARM FNT) ...APPEARS SKY SHUD BE CLDY OR BECOMING CLDY WITH SOME FOGGY CONDITIONS DEVELOPING. CANNOT DIRECTLY SAY WEATHER VSBY GOING BELOW 1/4 MI FOR ADVISORY CRITERIA...BUT SHUD BE ENOUGH TO MENTION IN FORECAST. THEN CONTINUED CLDY TUESDAY. FOR CWA SOUTH OF FNT...WILL GO FOR PTCLDY TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. LOW IN PLAINS DRIVES NE TUESDAY AND PUSHES FRONT THRU NRN IL TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUES TO DEEPEN. POPS SHOULD INCREASE OVER ALL CWA TUESDAY NIGHT WITH PLENTY OF SHOWER/TSTM ACTIVITY WED INTO WED NGT. DRY SLOTTING LATE WED NGT AND THURSDAY SPELLS DRY BUT CONTINUED DEEPENING OF LOW AS IT PUSHES NE INTO MN THURS LOOK STRANGELY FAMILIAR TO SATURDAY. THUS WINDS ON THE INCREASE BUT NOT AS STRONG AS SATURDAY WITH BOUNTIFUL SUNSHINE. PASSING SYSTEM TO OUR SOUTH ON FRIDAY MAY SPREAD ANOTHER RISK OF SHOWERS TO THE AREA BUT DRYING AGAIN IN TIME FOR THE WEEKEND AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO MS VLY. TEMPS SHOULD BE IN MIDDLE@ 40S TNGT WITH HIGHS AROUND 50 LAKESIDE TO ONLY 60 TO 65 INLAND...WITH TEMPS 70 TO 75 SOUTH OF FNT. .CHI...NONE BRUMER
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Livingston
- When
- April 9, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Livingston County, Ancona
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.033, -88.867
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 9, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, April 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, April 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, April 9, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, April 9, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Heavy Rain in New York, April 9 to 10, 2001
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, April 2001
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: 5240583, 5240584.