Iowa, 2001

Hail in Iowa, June 18, 2001

June 18, 2001 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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

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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 18, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
300 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

CDFNT MOVG THRU JAMES RVR VALLEY AND WL CONT TO TRACK SEWD ACRS CWA
THIS EVE. TRW POPPING UP JUST BEHIND FNT OVR NCNTRL SD AS COOLER AIR
ALOFT MOVES IN AND BREAKS CAP. THESE TRW ASSOCD WITH S/W MOVG ACRS
ND AND MAY CLIP NRN CWA ERLY THIS EVE. BETTER INSTABIL ACRS FAR SERN
CWA THIS EVE WITH BEST POT FOR SVR WX SE OF A MWM-YKN LINE. STG CAP
IN PLACE...BUT ALL MODELS INDICATE CAP WL BREAK THIS EVE. DIRECTION
SHEAR NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE BUT AS CAP BREAKS WUD EXPECT SCT TRW WILL
FIRE UP ALONG SFC FNT LATE THIS AFTN OR EVE. MAIN SVR THREAT WL PBLY
BE LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. WL KEEP MENTION OF SVR OVR SERN CWA
THIS EVE.

COOLER AIR WL MOVE IN FAIRLY QUICKLY TONITE BEHIND FNT WITH INTIT
SURGE OF 15 TO 30 MPH NW SFC WNDS AND THEN DROP OFF AFTER MIDNIGHT.

ON TUES...HIGH PRES WL PRODCE LOWER DPS AND HIGHS WL BE 10 TO 15 DEG
COOLER THAN TODAY. ANOTHER S/W WL DROP SEWD ACRS CWA WED AFTN AND
EVE AND WITH COLD AIR ALOFT...AIRMASS SHUD DESTABILIZE ENUF TO
PRODUCE SCT AFTN AND EVE TRW. LOW TOP CONVECTION WITH POT FOR SOME
HAIL...WITH BEST CHC ACRS SW MN.

IN THE EFP...INIT WL START OFF COOL BUT WILL WARM INTO THE WEEKED AS
RIDGE ALOFT BUILD OVR THE ROCKIES. LOOKS LIKE PATTERN WILL EVOLVE
INTO RIDGE RIDING NOCTURNAL TRWS SAT THRU MON ESPEC ERN AND NRN CWA
ON NOSE OF MID LEVEL CAP. LLJ WL DEVELOP EACH NIGHT TO AID IN TRW
FORMATION. SO WL MENTION CHC OF TRW AT NIGHT MOST OF CWA. SWRN CWA
WL LIKELY BE CAPPED SO WL LEAVE DRY AFTER SAT.

.FSD...NONE

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The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Buena Vista

When
June 18, 6:27 PM CST
Where
Buena Vista County, Sioux Rapids
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
42.883, -95.150

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.

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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: 5252547.