Hail, Douglas
- When
- June 29, 7:54 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County, Melby
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.067, -95.733
Hail in Minnesota, June 29, 2001
2 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
- 2
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 29, 7:50 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 7:50 PM CST, 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 850 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 WEAK MID LEVEL SPEED MAX CONTRIBUTING TO WDLY SCT SVR THUNDERSTORMS OVR WESTERN CWA...VCNTY OF WK SFC BOUNDARY. LOSS OF INSOLATION SHOULD ALLOW CONVECTION TO WKN SOMEWHAT BUT SPEED MAX MAY CONT TO PRODUCE WDLY SCT TO SCT -SHRA/-TSRA ACRS CWA DURNG NGT. OTHERWISE LITTLE FORCING BUT MID LEVEL INSTABILITY LINGERING. WL CONT WITH LOW POPS MOST AREAS. .MSP...NONE. KAVINSKY
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 203 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:51 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Douglas
- When
- June 29, 8:02 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County, Evansville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 46.000, -95.683
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 Nevada, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2001
- Wildfire in Alaska, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 29 to 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Texas, June 29, 2001
- Hail in Wyoming, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 29, 2001
More
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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: 5254574, 5254575.