Minnesota, 2001

Hail in Minnesota, June 27, 2001

June 27, 2001 · NWS FGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
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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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:30 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS
330 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

.SHORT TERM...
WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS UPR CICR OVR WRN WY MOVG NE AND WL MOV THRU
THE CWFA ON THU. WARM MID LVLS WERE CREATING PLENTY OF CIN ACRS THE
AREA. MOST UNSTABLE LVLS WERE ELEVATED ON THE 12Z BIS SOUNDING ARND
800 HPA, 650 HPA ON THE INL SOUNDING, AND 900 HPA ON ABR SOUNDING.
MESOSCALE ANLYS HAS PRES FALLS CNTRD OVR NW MN OR N OF A WARM FNT
EXTENDING FM NR VWU TO LOW PRES IN SE MT. GOOD TEMP GRAD ACRS FNT.
BEST CHC FOR TSRA WL BE IN NW COUNTIES OVNGT AS STORMS DEVELOP OVR
WRN ND/ERN MT AND MOV NE. POCKET OF LWR 850 HPA THETA-E AIR MOVS
INTO FAR ERN ZONES OVNGT AND WL GO MSTLY CLR TNGT. UPR LVL WV TO MOV
THRU THU WITH THE BEST CHC PRECIP ACRS THE CWFA. CAPES AND LIS
UNSTABLE THU AND RELATIVELY LITTLE CIN AS 700 HPA TEMPS WL BE STEADY
OR FALL. CAPES REMAIN HI THU NGT BUT LIS RISE WITH DRIER AIR MOVG
IN AT LWR LYRS INTO NW ZONES. CHC TSRA IN ERN ZONES YET FRI.

.EXTENDED...
LONG RANGE MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT...SO STUCK WITH MRF FOR
FORECAST. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AND SFC HIGH HOLD OVER CWFA FOR
WEEKEND...SO KEPT FORECAST DRY. UPPER LEVEL TROF QUICKLY MOVES
THROUGH CWFA ON MON (SO KEPT CHC TSRA FOR MON)...WITH SFC HIGH AND
UPPER LEVEL NW FLOW SETTING UP THEREAFTER. ALTHOUGH COULD SEE
ARRIVAL OF NEXT SHORTWAVE FOR EVE OF 4TH...WITH TIMING IN NW FLOW
DIFFICULT...WILL LEAVE DRY AT THIS TIME. AS FAR AS TEMPS...FMR AND
MEX BOTH SIMILAR...BUT LEANED TOWARDS SLIGHTLY COOLER MEX NUMBERS.

.FGF...NONE.
HOPPES/NG

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Kittson

When
June 27, 6:07 PM CST
Where
Kittson County, 5 mi NE of Kennedy
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
48.700, -96.833

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: 5254820.