Hail, Barron
- When
- August 26, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Barron County, Haugen
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.600, -91.767
Hail in Wisconsin, August 26, 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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 26, 2:00 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:00 PM CST, 6 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 300 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2001 COMPLEX OF SHWRS/TSTMS CONTS TO WKN AS IT MVS INTO MR STBL AMS IN WC WI. SKIES HV CLRD ACRS W CWA AND ADJACENT AREAS OF DKTS AHD OF SFC FNT WHICH HAS JUST PASSED ABR. SFC TMPS HV WRMD INTO THE LOWER 90S IN E SODAK WITH LIS FM MSAS NOW NEARING B10. NICE AREA OF CONVG ALNG WRMFNT FM NR ABR INTO EXT WC/SW MN LKS LIKE GUD LOCATION FOR NEW DVLPMT WITH UPR TROF NEARING. FVBL ISENTROPIC OMEGA PUSHES INTO E CWA THIS EVE WHICH SHOULD HELP CARRY TSTMS THRU AREA. CONVECTION SHUD BE LIMITED TO EVE HRS IN W CWA...BUT WILL KEEP CHCS THRU NITE IN WI PTN. NICE FRESH PUSH OF DRIER CNDN AIR TO SWEEP THRU AREA IN WAKE OF CDFNT WITH DWPTS DROPPING INTO THE UPPER 40S AND 50S. ENUF WND UPSTAIRS TO MIX DOWN FOR 10 TO 20 MPH ACRS CWA ON MONDAY. AMS SHUD DRY ENUF TO SUPPORT ONLY SCT CU EVEN WITH PUSH OF CAA. WX LKS GREAT THRU TUES WITH RIDGE PARKED OVER AREA. NXT SHRTWV STILL ON SCHD FOR PCPN CHCS WED AND INTO E PTNS AREA INTO THURS. ADJUSTED EFP ACCORDINGLY. .MSP...NONE. PAULSON
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 26, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 26 to 27, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 26, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 26, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Ohio, August 26, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, August 26, 2001
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, August 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: 5267410.