Hail, Benton
- When
- August 30, 1:46 PM EST
- Where
- Benton County, Boswell
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.517, -87.383
Hail in Indiana, August 30, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 Aug 30, 2:20 AM EST, 11 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:20 AM EST, 11 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 220 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001 ANOTHER BEAUTI ON WED. TO END TODAY WITH FRONT IN AREA. AT 06Z VORT FCST ALL VERY SIMILIAR ON MODELS ALTHO AVN LOOKS THE BEST ON BOTH VORT PATTERN AND RH PATTERN. ALL SEEMS TO MISS THE MO VORT. ALL MODELS HAVE FALLING UPPER HEIGHTS THRU DAY AND HAVE SOME VORT PACKING AND DPVA INTO XTRM NW IL BY 18Z AND THEN TO NE IL BY 00Z. VORT CHANNEL FROM NE MI TO NE IL SE IA BY 12Z FRI ON ALL MODELS WITH THE TROF DROPPING SE FROM CANADA. AT 06Z BKN BAND TS FROM LS SW TO KS. ISO CELLS SE DSM AND VORT MAX AREA TS OVER NE 1/2 MO. AT 06Z LOOKS LIKE MN TS BREAKING OFF TO THE E. THIS MAKES SENSE BASED ON THE VORT FORECAST AT 700 AND HEIGHT CONFIGURATION OF ALL MODELS SHOWING A VORT TO MOVE QUICKLY THRU N WI TO NW MI BY 12Z THIS MORNING AND TRAILING VORT LOBE BACK TO NE CORNER OF SD WITH TRAILING BATCH OF TS. MN TS SHOULD SET UP GOOD SFC BOUNDARY OVER S WI E/W FROM AROUND MSN AREA. 700 VORT FORECASTS WOULD THEN IGNITE THIS AND PUSH INTO N IL/NW IN BY 00Z. NONE OF THE MODELS REAL CONSISTENT ON AMOUNT LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE NOR UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE AND ALL SHOW BEST MID LEVEL INSTABILITY E OF AREA BY LATE AFTERNOON SO THE 40-60% POPS LOOK GOOD. LIKE QUICKER DRYING PATTERN OF RH ON ETA/NGM OVERNIGHT VS SLOWER AVN. SUN RETURN AGAIN FRIDAY WITH COOLER/LESS HUMID AIR. TEMP GUIDANCE LOOKS GOOD AND FOLLOWED. NICE PUSH OF COOLER AIR FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. .CHI...NONE AF
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 11:58 AM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>023-032>033-039-INZ001>002-010>011-019- 311100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1200 PM CDT/EST THU AUG 30 2001 FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING OVER THE ENTIRE AREA. A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TO SOUTHWESTERN IOWA WILL BE PASSING THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT. THE AIR IN ADVANCE OF THIS FRONT IS RATHER UNSTABLE AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. MERZLOCK
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:48 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 30, 2001
- Rip Current in California, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Indiana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, August 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: 5262727.