Minnesota, 2001

Hail in Minnesota, August 15, 2001

August 15, 2001 · NWS DLH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 15, 1:30 AM CST, 12 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 1:30 AM CST, 12 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
230 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2001

BAND OF TSTMS IN NWRN MN LOCATED JUST AHD OF SFC WFNT IN AN AREA OF
SLIGHTLY MORE UNSTABLE AIR AND THETA-E POOLING. 700 MB TROF ALSO
COINCIDES WITH THIS BAND. UPR LVL SUPPORT SEEMS TO BE LACKING FOR
THE MOST PART...BUT WITH PRESENCE OF A SFC BASED TRIGGER AND
MODERATE LOLVL THERMODYNAMICS...SEE NO REASON WHY CNVTV ACTVTY
SHOULD NOT CONT THRU THE NIGHT IN BROAD AREA OF LOLVL WAA AND ISENT
LIFT. EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF SVR STORMS THIS AFTN AS UPR TROF
CATCHES UP WITH FAVORABLE LOLVL PARAMS AND SFC CFNT MOVES INTO THE
RGN AT ABT THE TIME OF MAX HTG. SEE SWODY1 DISC. THU SHOULD BE DRY
WITH TEMPORARY UPR LVL RIDGING...THEN SECOND TROF SWINGS ACRS ON
FRI. WILL RETAIN MENTION OF SHOWERS FOR FRI...BUT MSTR WILL BE
SCARCE. MODELS RATHER SIMILAR BUT WILL GENERALLY FOLLOW ETA FOR
CONSISTENCY. MORE CLD CVR TDA SHOULD RESULT IN SLIGHTLY COOLER HIGHS
THAN YSTDA...ALTHO NOT AS COOL AS FAN. CAA KICKS IN TNGT AND
THU...AND THIS IS REFLECTED IN FWC/MAV GUIDANCE. WILL MAKE ONLY
MINOR TWEAKS TO CURRENT ZFP PKG.

.DLH...NONE.

ERF

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 15, 10:04 AM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH, MN
1104 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0700 PM    MARGIE                    MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/14/01   KOOCHICHING

0721 PM    MARGIE                    MN   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/14/01   KOOCHICHING

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:18 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Itasca

When
August 15, 2:18 PM CST
Where
Itasca County, Coleraine
Measured
1.25 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
47.283, -93.450

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: 5269058.