Name: Hail in Minnesota, June 18, 2001
Start: 2001-06-18T18:58
End: 2001-06-18T18:58
Location: Minnesota

Where it happened

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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 Jun 18, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
230 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

ALL MODELS INITIALIZED ESSENTIALLY THE SAME. ALTHO ALL WERE A LITTLE
OFF ON THE LOCATION OF THE SFC LOW IN SODAK...MEAN LYR MSTR FIELDS
WERE PRETTY ACCURATE. TRACK OF THE LOW TO THE NE ABOUT THE SAME ON
EACH MODEL...WITH THE AVN SHOWING A SOMEWHAT DEEPER CENTRAL PRESSURE
BY THE TIME THE LOW REACHES LK SUP. THIS DIFF SHOULD NOT AFFECT FCST
MUCH AND WILL PRBLY USE A BLEND OF ETA AND AVN WHERE ANY DIFFS ARE
SIG. MAIN ISSUE WILL BE CHANCES OF SVR THIS EVE WITH APPROACH OF
S/WV. WILL NOT REPEAT SWODY1 REASONING...BUT AGREE THAT BEST CHC
WILL BE S OF OUR CWA WHERE AMS WILL HAVE LONGER PD OF SFC HTG AND
BTR CHC TO BREAK CAP. THIS IS ALSO THE AREA OF HIGHEST CAPE AND
LOWEST LI VALUES THIS EVE. STILL CANNOT RULE OUT PSBLTY OF SVR OVR
OUR SRN TIER WHERE LI/S ARE EXPECTED TO REACH -6 WITH CAPES UP TO
2000 J/KG...AND WILL INCLUDE THIS WORDING IN NEW ZFP. ST LYR OVR
MUCH OF OUR CWA WILL RETARD SFC HTG AND HELP REINFORCE WFNT TO OUR S
AS A FOCUS FOR CNVCTV DVLMT. BEYOND 1ST PD...SFC HIGH SHOULD BRING A
RELATIVELY DRY PD...BUT WILL HAVE TO RETAIN AT A SLGT OR LOW CHC POP
FOR TUE NGT/WED AS UPR TROF SWINGS ACRS RGN AND LI/S DIP AGN TO ABT
-2. MODEL AGMT EXTENDS TO MOS PRODUCTS AS WELL...AND LOOKS RSNBL.
CLD CVR TNGT WILL ACT AGAINST BRIEF PD OF CAA. GOOD WAA NEVER GETS
STARTED...BUT FEWER CLDS ON TUE SHOULD HELP BOOST US BACK UP TO NEAR
70.

.DLH...NONE.

ERF

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:20 PM CST, 38 minutes before

MNZ033-190100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
720 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH DISCONTINUED FOR SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY...

THE THREAT HAS MOVED EAST OF SOUTHERN CASS COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR THAT AREA.
HOWEVER...THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN CASS AND CROW
WING COUNTIES THROUGH 9 PM CDT.

CS

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pine

When: June 18, 6:58 PM CST
Where: Pine County, 1 mi N of Pine City
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 45.850, -92.983

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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: 5255333.