Hail, Cherokee
- When
- May 10, 9:15 AM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County, 1 mi E of Larrabee
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.867, -95.517
Hail in Iowa, May 10, 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 May 10, 2:00 AM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:00 AM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 300 AM CDT THU MAY 10 2001 SCTD LGT SHWRS WERE MOVG E INTO WRN PARTS OF CWA AND SHLD SPRD E OVR REST OF CWA THIS MRNG...AS WK LO OVR SW NE MOVS NE ALNG CDFNT THAT WILL CONT IS SLOWLY TRACK SE ACRS MN...IA AND ERN NE TDA. ENGH INSTABLITY FOR AFTN TSTMS IN SE ZNS FM FM XTRM SE SD INTO NW IA AS LO MOVES NE ALNG FNT. COOLER AIR SPRDG SE OVR AREA TDA ALNG WITH PCP WILL KP SKIES MSTLY CLDY. TNGT AS FNT CONTS TO DRP S LO LVL MSTR WILL START TO DCRS FM N AS HI BUILDS INTO NRN PLAINS. KEEP CHC OF SCTD SHWRS IN FAR SE ZNS. EVENING SHWRS OF WRN AND NRN AREAS BUT THEN DCRSG CLDS ALTH DO NOT SEE IT CLRG OUT COMPLETELY. SOME MSTR LEFT ARND FOR FRI AS SFC HI MOVES TO E AND RDG BUILDS TO W...FOR NOW WILL KP IT DRY AND PTCLDY. NOT A LOT OF DIFFERENCE BTWN MAV AND FWC TEMPS...DID SOME ADJSMNT FOR CLDS AND PCP. NO CHNGS TO EXTENDED. . FSD...NONE WB
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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Iowa, May 10, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Iowa, May 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, May 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, May 10, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, May 10, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, May 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 10, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, May 10, 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: 5243624.