Hail, Winona
- When
- April 8, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Winona County, 3 mi S of Winona
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -91.650
Hail in Minnesota, April 8, 2001
Dime size hail was reported by storm spotters.
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 happened
The episode as NWS ARX wrote it up.
Dime size hail was reported by storm spotters.
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 Apr 8, 1:40 PM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 1:40 PM CST, 8 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 240 PM CDT SUN APR 8 2001 MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS ARE THE PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. LATEST WATERVAPOR IMAGERY PLACES THE STRONG SHORTWAVE OF YESTERDAY OVER SOUTHEASTERN CANADA...WITH ANOTHER WAVE OVER WY AND THE CENTRAL PLAINS. AT THE SURFACE...THE 17Z ANALYSIS HAD A WEAK RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE FROM NORTHWEST MN INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. TO THE WEST...A LOW PRESSURE CENTERS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN WY AND WESTERN CO RESPECTIVELY. A WARM FRONT RAN FROM THE CO LOW INTO SOUTHERN IA. MODEL DATA A LITTLE SLOW TO COME IN TODAY...BUT 12Z RUNS SEEM TO HAVE INITIALIZED OKAY. AVN IS FASTER BY 12 HOURS WITH THE NEXT SHORTWAVE...PROGGED TO MOVE FROM THE ROCKIES INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. ALSO A BIT STRONGER AND FASTER THIS RUN COMPARED TO PREVIOUS. ETA LOOKS A BIT MORE CONSISTENT. WILL TAKE A BLEND OF THE ETA/AVN FOR NOW. MORE OR LESS A TWO-PRONGED RAIN MAKER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. INITIALLY...THE LOW OVER CO WILL MOVE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BY 06Z TONIGHT. MORE IMPORTANTLY...THE ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT WILL SURGE INTO NORTHERN ILLINOIS. 850 MB WARM AIR ADVECTION AND LOW LEVEL QG CONVERGENCE MAXIMIZE OVER THE FORECAST AREA FROM 00-06Z. THE LOW LEVEL JET AND BEST MOISTURE TRANSPORT NOSES INTO NORTHEAST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST WI ALSO DURING THIS TIME. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP ALONG THIS FRONT EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH OVERRUNNING PCPN ACROSS SOUTHEAST MN AND WI...IN THE FAVORABLE 295:300 K ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE AND 850 MB WARM AIR ADVECTION. INSTABILITY ABOVE 800 MB SUPPORTS SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT. THE FAVORABLE FORCING WILL SHIFT TO THE EAST BY MON MORNING. THE SURFACE LOW WILL TRACK OVER NORTHERN ILL SOMETIME LATE MON AFTERNOON OR EVENING...DEPENDING WHAT MODEL YOU BUY...JUST IN TIME FOR AN UPPER LEVEL WAVE TO PUSH INTO MN. THIS WAVE WILL PROVIDE SOME LIFT...BUT BETTER FORCING IS ANTICIPATED THANKS TO GOOD 295 K ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE AND THE TIGHT 850 MB BAROCLINIC ZONE NORTH OF THE LOW. THIS SHOULD BRING MORE RAIN CHANCES TO THE AREA...MOSTLY THE EASTERN ZONE CUTS. IN WHAT HAS BEEN A FAIRLY ACTIVE SOUTHWEST FLOW REGIME OVER THE PAST WEEK...YET ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM COULD EFFECT THE AREA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. HOW FAR NORTH THE PCPN WILL DEVELOP TUES NIGHT IS TOUGH TO SAY RIGHT NOW...ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY GOOD BET FOR RAIN LATER ON WED FROM THIS SYSTEM. FOR TEMPERATURES...FWC MUCH WARMER THEN THE MAV. WITH THE WARM FRONT ANTICIPATED TO STAY TO THE SOUTH...PREFER THE COLDER MAV. .LSE...NONE RIECK
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:09 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
- Heat in Missouri, April 8 to 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Iowa, April 8 to 9, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, April 8, 2001
- Heavy Rain in New York, April 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, April 8, 2001
- Flood in New York, April 8 to 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 8, 2001
- Flood in New York, April 8 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 8, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, April 8, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 8, 2001
- Tornado and Flood in Iowa, April 8 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, April 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: 5238264.