Hail, Clay
- When
- June 11, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, Spencer
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 43.150, -95.150
Hail in Iowa, June 11, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 11, 7:35 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 7:35 PM CST, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 835 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 ELEVATED CONVECTION CONTINUES TO STEW IN FAR SERN SD EARLY THIS EVENING...PULSING UP BRIEFLY...WITH STG CELL CLOSING OR KORC RAPIDLY WEAKENING. ENVIRONMENT STILL FAVORABLE FOR WIND POTENTIAL...AS WITH WKR -SHRA EARLIER. APRS FOCUS FOR ANY CHANCE OF FURTHER SIG CONVECTIVE WEATHER TONIGHT WOULD APPEAR TO BE THE HIGHLY CONVERGENT COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY JUST SOUTH OF A SIOUX CITY TO WINDOM LINE. WIND FIELDS LACKING MUCH SPEED SHEAR AND LARGELY UNIDIRECTIONAL SW WNDS ON NLG PROFILER...BUT FAIRBURY IS MORE FAVORABLE SHEAR IN LO LVLS...BUT WK MID LVL FLOW OF 15 TO 20 KTS. A COUPLE CELLS INITIATED ALG BNDRY IN SCNTRL NEBR...AND EXHIBITED SPLITTING NATURE...FAVORING SRN CELLS. SIGNIFICANT ELEVATED INSTABILITY CONTINUES...AND WITH INCREASE IN LLJ AFTER DARK...WL LKLY HAVE INCRS IN COVERAGE AS WELL. IF FLOW BEGINS TO BACK A BIT MORE WITH APPROACH OF WAVE IN WRN PLAINS...CUD BE LONGER TERM EVENT AS WELL IN FAR SERN CWA. UPDATED MAINLY FOR WATCH AND TO CLEAR EARLY EVENING WEATHER...BUT MAY PUT IN ANOTHER ROUND OF UPDTS AS$ NEWER GUIDANCE BECOMES AVAILABLE. 18Z MESOETA TOO CONTMINATED FOR USAGE .FSD... NONE CHAPMAN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:52 PM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
MNZ072-080-081-089-090-112215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 452 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 397 CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA HAS ENDED. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR COTTONWOOD... NOBLES...LYON...JACKSON AND MURRAY COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:33 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
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 11 to 12, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 11, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 11, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Heat in Texas, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 11, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 11, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 11, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, June 11 to 12, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, June 11 to 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, 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: 5252764.