Hail, Lake
- When
- August 8, 5:43 PM CST
- Where
- Lake County, Silver Bay
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.300, -91.267
Hail in Minnesota, August 8, 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 250 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2001 FORECAST FOCUS WILL BE CONVECTION TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT AND FOLLOWED THE ETA FOR MOST OF DETAILS. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA TOWARD THE ARROWHEAD. CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ATTM IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/WESTERN MINNESOTA NEAR THIS FEATURE. COLD FRONT FURTHER WEST. 850MB/SURFACE COLD FRONTS SLOW AS THEY MOVE INTO MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. 700MB TEMPS BEGIN TO COOL AND DROP BELOW 10C BY 06Z. 100KT JET MAX ALSO CRUISES THROUGH CENTRAL/SOUTHERN CANADIAN PROVINCES AND WILL CREATE ADDED DIVERGENCE. COMBO OF CONVERGENCE WITH LOWER LEVEL COLD FRONT AND UPPER DIVERGENCE WILL BE ENOUGH LIFT AS CAP ERODES LATER THIS EVENING. DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S REMAIN OVER MOST OF CWA SO LOW LEVELS REMAIN QUITE MOIST. 0-6KM SHEAR OF 25-30KTS INCREASES TO 30-40KTS BY 06Z. SEVERE STORM POTENTIAL CONTINUES...AND WILL INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING AS ABOVE MENTIONED FEATURES DEVELOP/MOVE CLOSER TO CWA. COLD FRONT THEN MOVES THROUGH CWA THURSDAY MORNING...WITH DECENT COLD AIR ADVECTION BRINGING RELIEF FROM THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY. GUSTY WIND TO DEVELOP FROM THE NORTHWEST DURING THE DAY WITH 35 KNOTS AT 850MB. AFTER SOME MORNING CLOUDS...PARTIAL CLEARING TO DEVELOP. THERE MAY BE MORE CLOUDS FAR NORTH. FOLLOWED GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES...BUT INCREASED SOME TOMORROW. .DLH...NONE. MELDE
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 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 New York, August 8 to 10, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Heat in North Carolina, August 8, 2001
- Heat in Texas, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 8, 2001
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 8, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 8, 2001
- Heat in New York, August 8 to 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, August 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: 5268960.