Hail, Woodbury
- When
- May 1, 1:55 PM CST
- Where
- Woodbury County, 6 mi W of Climbing Hill
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 42.350, -96.200
Hail in Iowa, May 1, 2001
2 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
- 2
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 May 1, 9:05 AM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 9:05 AM CST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1005 AM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 CDFNT MOVG THRU CNTRL SD ATTM AND WIL CONT TO MOVE QUICKLY E OVR CWA THIS AFTN AND ERLY EVE. S TO SW WNDS PCKG UP AHD OF FNT BUT FOR NOW KPG BLOW ADVSY...WIL HAVE TO WTCH BUFFALO RDG AREA IN SW MN. BHND FNT NW WNDS KICK UP FOR AWHILE AND WILL CONT ADVSY W OF JAMES RVR. TEMPS WILL WARM QUICKLY AHD OF FNT WITH COOLR AIR MOVG IN BHND AND CRNT LOOK OK FOR NOW. CHC OF TSTMS IS THE BIG QUSTN. CRNT FCST HAS BST CHC IN NW IA AND SW MN THIS AFTN WCH LOOK GD AS THAT AREA WILL HAVE BTR MSTR AND THE BST HEATG AND OF FNT. IN SIG WX OUTLOOK WILL HAVE SLGT CHC OF AFTN SVR IN THESE AREAS. COULD BE SIMILIAR TO MON EVENT WITH SOME HAIL AND STG WNDS. REST OF FCST UNCHND. .FSD...WND ADVY THIS AFTN ALONG AND W OF JAMES RVR WB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 *** THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERTAINS ONLY TO CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS. *** .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT FROM CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA TO WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EAST OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA BY EARLY EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE FROM EXTREME NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...THROUGH NORTHWEST IOWA INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. SDZ038>040-050-052>055-057>061-063>065-068-020500- BEADLE-KINGSBURY-BROOKINGS-JERAULD-SANBORN-MINER-LAKE-BRULE-AURORA- DAVISON-HANSON-MCCOOK-GREGORY-CHARLES MIX-DOUGLAS-HUTCHINSON-BON HOMME- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HURON...BROOKINGS...CHAMBERLAIN...MITCHELL... 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 * FORECAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT: WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED IN THIS AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER: NONE. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION: SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SDZ056-062-066-067-069-MNZ071-072-080-097-098-IAZ001-020500- LINCOLN-LYON-MOODY-PIPESTONE-MURRAY-MINNEHAHA-ROCK-TURNER-LINCOLN- LYON-YANKTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PIPESTONE...SLAYTON...SIOUX FALLS...LUVERNE... ROCK RAPIDS...YANKTON... 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 * FORECAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED IN THIS AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER: NONE. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION: SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SDZ070-071-MNZ081-089-090-IAZ002-003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013- 014-020500- COTTONWOOD-NOBLES-JACKSON-OSCEOLA-DICKINSON-CLAY-UNION-SIOUX-OBRIEN- CLAY-PLYMOUTH-CHEROKEE-BUENA VISTA-DIXON-DAKOTA-WOODBURY-IDA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WORTHINGTON...SPIRIT LAKE...SIOUX CENTER... SPENCER...LE MARS...STORM LAKE...SIOUX CITY... 1100 AM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 * FORECAST THROUGH MIDNIGHT: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY MAY BECOME SEVERE BEFORE ENDING BY EARLY EVENING. * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER: SEVERE WINDS...GUSTS EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN 58 MPH. LARGE HAIL...DIME SIZE OR LARGER. * SPOTTER ACTIVATION: SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER 3 PM CDT.
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:54 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Woodbury
- When
- May 1, 2:12 PM CST
- Where
- Woodbury County, Climbing Hill
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 42.350, -96.083
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Drought in Florida, May 1 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 1 to 18, 2001
- Flooding in Minnesota, May 1 to 16, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 9, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 18, 2001
- High Wind in California, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Drought in North Carolina, May 1 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, May 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: 5243609, 5243610.