Hail, Pine
- When
- May 1, 4:42 PM CST
- Where
- Pine County, Pine City
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.833, -92.983
Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 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 May 1, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 245 PM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL IS MAIN FOCUS FOR THIS EVENING. STORMS WERE STARTING TO FIRE ALONG STRONG COLD FRONT IN WESTERN MINNESOTA...WHERE STRONG MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND DEWPOINT POOLING WERE TAKING PLACE. MSAS LIFTED INDICIES AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN OUR SOUTHERN ZONES WERE APPROACHING -6C...WELL BELOW FORECAST VALUES. THE STRENGTH OF THE FRONT...COMBINED WITH IMPRESSIVE SHEAR VALUES SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME LOWER DEWPOINTS AND LESS SURFACE HEATING IN OUR CWA THIS LATE AFTN AND EVENING. WILL MENTION POTENTIAL SEVERE AT LEAST IN OUR SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA THIS EVENING. HAVE FOLLOWED ETA/MESOETA FOR MOST DETAILS OF THIS FORECAST. IT APPEARS THE ETA HAS THE BEST HANDLE ON THE SPEED OF THE FRONT...WITH ITS SUPERIOR RESOLUTION OF COLD AIR BEHIND FRONTS. WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF A THUNDERSTORM IN OUR NW ZONES LATER TOMORROW AFTN...AS TOTAL TOTALS REACH 58 AND H5 TEMPS DROP TO ABOUT -26/-28C. LAPSE RATES ALSO CLOSE TO 8C/KM. OTHERWISE...AFTER THE FRONT BLOWS THROUGH TONIGHT...IT LOOKS FAIRLY QUIET AGAIN. THE NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN DOES NOT ARRIVE UNTIL SOMETIME THIS WEEKEND. MOS TEMPS FAIRLY SIMILAR NOW...AND BASED ON LOW LEVEL THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES...THEY LOOK FAIRLY REASONABLE. .DLH...NONE. DAP
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:42 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Drought in Florida, May 1 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, May 1 to 18, 2001
- Flooding in Minnesota, May 1 to 16, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 9, 2001
- Flooding in Iowa, May 1 to 18, 2001
- High Wind in California, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, May 1 to 2, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 1, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 1, 2001
- Drought in North Carolina, May 1 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, May 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: 5246796.