Hail, Mitchell
- When
- July 21, 12:35 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County, Carpenter
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.417, -93.000
Hail in Iowa, July 21, 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 La Crosse, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 1:21 AM CST, 11 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 1:21 AM CST, 11 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 221 AM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 ...FORECAST PROBLEM WILL AGAIN BE CONVECTION... DATA ANALYSIS SHOWING A WEAK TROUGH EXTENDING ACROSS IOWA INTO NORTHERN ILLINOIS. THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SUBTLE THETA-E RIDGE JUST NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY...SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TRANSPORT AND INSTABILITY HAS CAUSED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN IOWA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN. RAINFALL RATES WITH THE STORM OVER GRANT COUNTY HAVE BEEN 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. EXPECT STORMS TO DIE OFF THIS MORNING WITH AREAS OF FOG ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. RESIDUAL CLOUD DEBRIS WILL AGAIN KEEP MAX TEMPERATURES DOWN SOME...SIMILAR TO FRIDAY. PERSISTENCE A GOOD BET TODAY. 21/00Z ETA...WHICH IS PREFERRED...BRINGS A THETA-E RIDGE INTO THE FORECAST AREA AROUND 22/03Z. LOOK FOR THIS TO BE THE MAIN TRIGGER FOR SATURDAY NIGHT CONVECTION...ALONG WITH SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY OF THE LAKE BREEZE BOUNDARIES. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE GRADUALLY BREAKS DOWN...PUSHING THE WARMEST BOUNDARY LAYER AIR INTO THE REGION ON SUNDAY. THIS WILL INCREASE TEMPERATURES AS WELL AS THE SEVERE THREAT AHEAD OF THE SURFACE FRONT. SOUNDING FORECASTS INDICATE MIDDLE AND UPPER 90S FOR SUNDAY. THE FRONT SHOULD EXTEND FROM KDLH-KFSD SUNDAY EVENING. NEAR THE BOUNDARY THE AIRMASS WILL BE CAPPED...WITH THE CAP WEAKENING WELL AHEAD OF IT. SKEPTICAL OF ETAS QPF IN THIS REGION AS THE FRONT REMAINS WELL TO THE WEST. THIS SEEMS TO BE ALONG THE INSTABILITY GRADIENT. CONVECTION SHOULD BE MAINLY THE RESULT OF THE LOW LEVEL JET. AS IT DEVELOPS SUNDAY EVENING...MCS WILL DEVELOP ON THE ELEVATED SIDE OF THE FRONT AND PROPAGATE INTO THE FORECAST AREA. THIS SHOULD BE THE BEST CHANCE OF RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. .LSE...NONE. KRC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 9:55 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
IAZ008>011-018-019-029-030-MNZ079-086>088-094>096-WIZ017-029-032>034- 041>044-053>055-061-211800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1055 AM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 HAZARD - SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. TIMING - FROM EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCATION - NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. DISCUSSION - A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHERN IOWA WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER... WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT REMAIN WEAK. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SPOTTER INFORMATION - SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA. RABERDING @ RUKWBCe7KDENWWUS35 KLSE 211555 SPSLSE IAZ008>011-018-019-029-030-MNZ079-086>088-094>096-WIZ017-029-032>034- 041>044-053>055-061-212300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1055 AM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 HAZARD - SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. TIMING - FROM EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCATION - NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...AND SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. DISCUSSION - A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHERN IOWA WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER... WINDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT REMAIN WEAK. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SPOTTER INFORMATION - SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHEAST IOWA. RABERDING
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heat in Illinois, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Illinois, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 21 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, July 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: 5256701.