Hail, Polk
- When
- July 23, 5:30 AM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Clear Lake
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.250, -92.267
Hail damaged a number of vehicles.
Hail in Wisconsin, July 23, 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
- $20,000
- 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 Jul 23, 2:40 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:40 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 340 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001 NOT MUCH TIME FOR DISCUSSION. AVN LAYER 200-300 MB WINDS SHOWING NICE DIV OVER SE SD AT 06Z WHICH SLIDES ESE ACROSS S MN THROUGH 12Z. NOW A BAD DEPICTION OF WHAT IS EVOLVING. LOW LEVEL CONV ALSO COUPLED WITH DIV AREA. BOW ECHO STILL INTACT BUT SEEING LESS INBOUNDS NOW OVER MEEKER COUNTY. KMPX VAD WIND DOES NOT SEEM ALL THAT GOOD FOR CONTINUING AS STRONG. MOSTLY WSW WINDS. MAIN UPPER DIV PATTERN ACTUALLY DOES FAVOR MORE SOUTH OF MSP. CLEARING TRENDS LOOKS GOOD THIS AFTERNOON AS MCS'S PUSH ESE. FOLLOWING AVN JET PROG...UPPER DIV FOR TUESDAY MOSTLY SOUTH..BUT WILL KEEP SMALKL POPS GOING. NOW CHANGE TO EFP AT THIS TIME. .MSP...NONE. RICHARDSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 23, 1:35 AM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
235 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 AM ALBERTA MN 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/23/01 STEVENS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0216 AM MORRIS ARPT MN 71 MPH TSTM GUST
07/23/01 STEVENS KMOX AWOSLocal storm report, Jul 23, 2:24 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
324 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 AM GLENWOOD MN WIND DAMAGE
07/23/01 POPE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN ALL ACROSS THE
COUNTY.Local storm report, Jul 23, 4:03 AM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
503 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0420 AM ST CLOUD MN WIND DAMAGE
07/23/01 STEARNS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. 3-6 INCH
DIAMETER TREE -LIMB FELL
ON SPOTTERS CAR.Local storm report, Jul 23, 4:27 AM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
527 AM CDT MON JUL 23 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0510 AM 10 W CAMBRIDGE MN WIND DAMAGE
07/23/01 ISANTI REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. TREE DOWN AND
POWER FAILED.The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:28 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
- Rip Current in New York, July 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 23, 2001
- Flooding in Florida, July 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 23, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, July 23, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, July 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 23, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, July 23, 2001
- Flood in Florida, July 23 to 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, July 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: 5262198.