Minnesota, 2001

Hail in Minnesota, August 22, 2001

August 22, 2001 · NWS FGF · 2 events in 1 county or zone

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

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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 21, 7:20 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 7:20 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
820 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001

.CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL OVERVIEW...
00Z MSAS ANALYSIS DEPICTED RATHER DIFFUSE AND BENIGN PRESSURE
PATTERN OVER REGION WITH LOW PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
AND ASSOCIATED INVERTED TROUGH AXIS NORTH INTO WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA.
LATEST RADAR MOSAIC INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FIRING
IN HIGHLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT FROM JUST WEST OF LANGDON TO
SOUTHEAST OF MINOT.

.FORECAST DETAILS...
EXPECT ACTIVITY TO WEAKEN AFTER DARK CHECK SPC MESOSCALE DISCUSSION
FOR FURTHER DETAILS. WILL UPDATE ZONES BY LATE EVENING TO ADDRESS
CONVECTIVE TRENDS...OTHERWISE NO MAJOR REVISIONS PLANNED.

.FGF...NONE.

BERG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 21, 8:00 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
900 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001

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

0815 PM    13 E HANSBORO             ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/21/01   TOWNER                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL

0820 PM    14 SE HANSBORO            ND   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/21/01   TOWNER                         GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL

0830 PM    2 NW CALVIN               ND   .75 INCH HAIL
08/21/01   CAVALIER                       PENNY SIZED HAIL

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The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:43 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Kittson

When
August 22, 12:43 AM CST
Where
Kittson County, 1 mi W of Northcote
Measured
1.5 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.850, -97.017

Hail covered the ground.

Hail, Kittson

When
August 22, 12:45 AM CST
Where
Kittson County, 2 mi SE of Northcote
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.833, -96.967

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

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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: 5265326, 5265327.