Minnesota, 2001

Hail in Minnesota, May 19, 2001

May 19, 2001 · NWS FGF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 May 19, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1030 AM CDT SAT MAY 19 2001

UPR TROF SWINGING THRU MAN AND WRN ONT TDY WL LAY DOWN A BNDRY ACRS
THE NRN PLNS. AREA 88D VAD WNDS SHOWING LOW LVL ERLY FLOW AT ABR AND
BIS AND NRLY AT KMVX. VIS STLT LOOP IMPLYING SFC BNDRY ACRS NE SD
INTO W CNTRL MN. ETA FCSTG 850 HPA THETA-E AT 320+K IN FAR S THIS
AFTN. CONCERNED THAT WE MAY HAVE STORMS FIRE UP N OF SFC BNDRY.
MODELS INDICATE A FAIR AMOUNT OF CAPE AND LITTLE CINS ACRS SRN ZONES
TDY. MESOSCALE ANLYS HAS LWR SFC DWPNTS MOVG INTO NW COUNTIES BUT
STILL HAVE 8G/KG SFC MIXING RATIOS OVR MUCH OF CWFA. SFC HI WAS NR
ND/SASK BDR AND LOW PRES WAS OVR SE SD. SFC PRES FALLS STARTING TO
MOV INTO NW ND WITH RETURN SRLY FLOW. WL ADD CHC TSRA S OF ABT A BJI
TO VLY CITY LINE THIS AFTN.

.FGF...NONE.
HOPPES

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 185 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hubbard

When
May 19, 1:20 PM CST
Where
Hubbard County, Kabekona Corner
Measured
0.88 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
47.233, -94.900

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: 5250480.