Hail, Red Lake
- When
- July 29, 9:25 PM CST
- Where
- Red Lake County, 1 mi S of Dorothy
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.917, -96.450
Hail in Minnesota, July 29, 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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 7:04 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 7:04 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 804 PM CDT SUN JUL 29 2001 WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS FAIRLY ZONAL FLOW FM THE PAC NW INTO THE NRN PLNS. FLOW ALF BECMS MORE SW AS WV DIGS IN THE PAC NW. WATER VAPOR ALSO SHOWING SHORT WV OVR SW ND AND ANOTHER OVR N CNTRL MN MOVG E. ATMOS IS QUITE UNSTABLE ESPECIALLY IN THE S WITH LI'S ARND -10, GOOD SFC MSTR CONVERGENCE, AND CAPES ARND 4000 J/KG. SOME -SPKLS HAVE POPPED UP AND DSIPTD ON 88D IN THE SRN VLY AND IN NE ZONES. WARM MID LVL TEMPS HAVE CAPPED THE ATMOS AS WELL AS PARTING MN WV. WITH LOW LVL CLDS THIS AFTN, CONVECTIVE TEMPS FM THE UPR 80S N TO LWR 90S S HAVE NOT BEEN REACHED. ETA MODEL SNDGS ACTUALLY SHOW A LITTLE WARMING BTWN 850 AND 650 HPA OVNGT IN THE S AND SLGT COOLING THROUGH A DEEPER LYR IN THE NRN VLY. STLT LOOPS SHOWING APPROACHING WV TO MOV INTO ERN ND THIS EVE AND WOULD XPC TSRA TO DEVELOP. VIS STLT LOOP SHOWING SEVERAL CU LINES S OF GFK, AND FM FAR TO BJI. WL KEEP TSRA IN FCST TNGT. WL CHECK ZONES. .FGF...NONE. HOPPES
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:24 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 Illinois, July 29 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, July 29, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 29, 2001
- Heat and Lightning Strike in Mississippi, July 29, 2001
- Volcanic Ash in Puerto Rico, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Virginia, July 29 to 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 29, 2001
- Volcanic Ash in U.S. Virgin Islands, July 29, 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: 5259986.