Hail, Henry
- When
- June 5, 1:40 AM CST
- Where
- Henry County, Galva
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.167, -90.050
Penny sized hail reported by trained storm spotter.
Flash Flood and Hail in Illinois, June 5, 2001
1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 3
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 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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 2:15 PM CST, 11 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:15 PM CST, 11 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 315 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001 MAIN CONCERN THIS PACKAGE WILL BE HEAVY RAIN CONCERN IN FIRST TWO PERIODS...AND POSSIBILITY OF HEADLINES TO COVER THIS THREAT. MCS SPAWN PARAMETERS AND NOWCAST TOOLS...OVERLAID ON INTERESTING VIS LOOP...SUGGEST NORTH CENTRAL INTO NORTHEAST KS MAY BE AREA OF MCS INITIATION THIS EVENING. MSAS...RUC AND MESOETA SFC AGEOSTROPHIC WINDS CONVERGE ON LLVL THTA-E NOSE IN THIS AREA...WITH SOUTHEAST NE ALSO A POSSIBILITY. SOME CONVECTION/ENHANCEMENT TAKING OFF ALREADY OVER NORTHWEST NE PANHANDLE...WEST OF H85 THERMAL RIBBON/BAROCLINICITY WHICH IS DRAPING EAST AND WEST INTO SOUTHWEST IA. 40-50 KT H85 JET WILL LOOK TO CONTINUE TO PUNCH INTO THIS GENERAL REGION(NORTHEAST KS-SOUTHEAST NE)...WITH ITS INHERENT WAA AND THTA-E ADVECTION AND CONVERGENCE...LEADING TO MCS GENERATION. LEAD VORT SEEN ON W/V IMAGERY EJECTING OUT OF EAST CO...SHOULD MOVE EAST ACRS THIS AREA TONIGHT...WITH CVA HELPING TO ACT AS UPPER FORCING MECHANISM. THIS AREA ON EDGE OF BUILDING INSTABILITIES IN AREA OF AFTERNOON HEATING ACRS SOUTHEAST KS AS WELL. MESOETA LIGHTS UP NORTHEAST KS THIS EVENING...WHILE ETA AND ESPECIALLY AVN INITIATE LATER TONIGHT. AVN BREAKS OUT FURTHER NORTH/ELEVATED MCS ACRS NORTHEAST NE AND SOUTHEAST SD THIS EVENING... WITH THIS ACTIVITY MOVING EAST ALONG ELEVATED BOUNDARY AND DECAYING SOMEWHAT OVERNIGHT AS NORTHEAST KS/NORTHWEST MO ACTIVITY TAKES OFF TOWARD MORNING. AVN TAKES THIS SECOND WAVE AND PUMMELS THE MID SECTION OF THE CWA TOMORROW DURING DAY WITH HEAVY RAIN...WITH ADDITIONAL MCS TAKING OFF ON WARM FRONT/MCS OUTFLOWS ACRS EAST CENTRAL IL TUE AFTERNOON. OF COURSE H85 SOUTHWEST FLOW FEEDS RICH THTA-E AIR INTO ACTIVITY TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. IN ANY CASE...H7-H3 THICKNESSES(WHICH DIVERGE SOMEWHAT OVER NORTHERN MO OVERNIGHT)...AS WELL AS CORFIDI VECTORS PROGRESS ACTIVITY ACRS PORTIONS OF CWA LATE TONIGHT AND TUE. WILL TAKE MESOETA INITIATION OVER NORTHEAST KS... AND PROPAGATE ACTIVITY EAST-NORTHEAST ALONG BEST THTA-E GRADIENT AND THICKNESS PATTERN FOR LATE NIGHT THREAT ACRS SOUTHERN THIRD OF CWA. LIGHTER ACTIVITY TO POSSIBLY GET ACRS NORTHERN CWA FROM NE MCS...SO WILL HAVE LOWER POPS ACRS THE NORTH. CAT POPS FOR WHOLE CWA FOR TUE...TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SECOND WAVE ADVERTISED BY AVN. WITH RAIN LAST NIGHT...SOUTHERN THIRD OF CWA MOST RIPE FOR FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR LATE TONIGHT AND TUE...BUT WILL EXTEND FURTHER NORTH TO ROUTE 30 TO ACCOMMODATE FURTHER NORTH HEAVY RAIN POSSIBILITY ON TUE. RAIN WILL LINGER INTO TUE NIGHT...BUT SHOULD BE EAST OF AREA BY WED. WILL GO WITH FAN/MAV BLEND FOR LOWS TONIGHT...AND TUE HIGHS. .EXTENDED(THU-MON)...WILL LEAN TOWARD LATEST UKMET AND EUROPEAN MODEL SOLUTIONS OF SUGGESTING MAINLY A DRY EXTENDED PERIOD WITH A WARMING TREND. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS GENERALLY SUGGEST A LARGE REGION OF UPPER RIDGING WILL DOMINATE THE MIDDLE PART OF THE CONUS AT START OF EXTENDED...AND THEN BUILD EAST WITH TIME OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. BOTH UKMET AND EURO HINT AT BACKDOOR FRONT POSSIBILITY ON THU...AS CANADIAN SFC HIGH BUILDS SOUTH ACRS THE GRT LKS AND EAST-NORTHEAST FLOW OFF LK MI TEMPERS HIGHS. FMR AND MEX HIGHS DONT LOOK TO BAD HOWEVER...TAKING INTO ACCOUNT JUNE INSOLATION TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE LAKE COOLING AFFECT. AS UPPER RIDGE EDGES EAST ACRS THE UPPER MIDWEST INTO THE WEEKEND...FINALLY SOME SUMMERTIME LIKE TEMPS MAY BE REALIZED...ESPECIALLY SUN AND MON. WILL KEEP DRY AS MAIN STORM TRACK SHIFTS AROUND LARGE UPPER RIDGE/RING OF FIRE SET-UP/...WITH MOST ACTIVITY REMAINING NORTH ACRS THE DAKOTAS...MN AND WI. WILL WATCH IN COMING MODEL RUNS FOR POSSIBILITY OF SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY SPILLING SOUTHEAST TOWARD NORTHERN IL/NORTHEAST CWA SUN AND ESPECIALLY MON. COORDINATED WITH DMX...THANX .DVN... IA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH LATE TONIGHT(FFAMLI) AND TUESDAY ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST IA...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 30. IL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST IL...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 30. MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR FAR NORTHEAST MISSOURI. JDH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Rain, Henry
- When
- June 5, 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Henry County, Kewanee
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.353, -90.131 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Trained storm spotter reported 3.92 inches of rain between midnight and 11 a.m.
Flash Flood, Henry
- When
- June 5, 9:36 AM CST
- Where
- Henry County, Countywide
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.353, -90.131 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The Edwards River Bridge at the Andover/Woodhull blacktop was nearly impassable due to high water. Also, water was on Route 150 at Ophiem, while two feet of water covered a county road near Andover. County road 600E at Edwards River Road was closed due to high water.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tropical Storm in Texas, June 5 to 10, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 5 to 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 14, 2001
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 8, 2001
- Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 5 to 7, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 5 to 6, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, June 5, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in West Virginia, June 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, June 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: 5256391, 5256393, 5256392.