Hail, Crow Wing
- When
- July 17, 7:58 PM CST
- Where
- Crow Wing County, Baxter
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.350, -94.283
Hail in Minnesota, July 17, 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 Jul 17, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 2:15 PM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 315 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001 LITTLE CHANGE IN ON-GOING FORECAST SCHEME WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD IN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. NO REAL BIG KICKER IN THE WORKS...SOME S/WVS COMING OVER TOP OF SLOWLY WEAKENING RIDGE...BUT NOTHING THAT MODELS CAN REALLY AGREE ON. WHAT CAN BE AGREED UPON IS CONTINUED WARM AND HUMID WEATHER PATTERN TO WITH SOME RESPITE FOUND NEAR THE SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR. COLD FRONT COMING THROUGH ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. ETA FASTEST WITH THIS FEATURE...BUT TOO FAR AHEAD TO PIN DOWN MORE PRECISE TIMING. FOLLOWED GENERAL FORECAST NUMBERS. .DLH...NONE. CLC
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 17, 7:41 PM CST, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH, MN
841 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0520 PM CASS LAKE MN .75 INCH HAIL
07/17/01 CASS
0728 PM NORTHOME MN 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/17/01 KOOCHICHING
0825 PM PILLAGER MNt 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/17/01 CASS
0825 PM LAKESHORE MN 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/17/01 CASS
DLTThe radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 167 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:57 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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 17 to 18, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 17 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 17, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, July 17, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 17 to 31, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 17, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 17, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 17, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, July 17, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 17 to 18, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 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: 5261862.