Hail, Sawyer
- When
- June 16, 2:49 PM CST
- Where
- Sawyer County, Stone Lake
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.850, -91.550
Hail in Wisconsin, June 16, 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 Jun 16, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 200 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 2001 TSTMS PULSING THIS AFTN BETWEEN PARK RAPIDS AND DULUTH. THEY'RE FIRING ON THE N SIDE OF THE INSTABILITY AXIS. A FEW MORE ARE REGENERATING IN ERN ND, BUT THEY SHOULD DIE AS THE SUN GOES DOWN. WE'LL LEAVE A LOW POP IN NWRN WI EARLY. THEN CALL FOR SLOW CLEARING. ON SUNDAY, ZONAL FLOW SENDING THRU A COUPLE OF IMPULSES AT DIFFERENT TIMES. ONE WILL MOVE THROUGH SRN SECTIONS DURING THE AFTN, BUT ONE ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER WILL WAIT UNTIL ALMOST EVENING. ETA/MESOETA HAVE A CONSITENT HANDLE ON TOPICS AND WILL FOLLOW THE ETA FOR DETAILS. NGM REALLY TAKES OFF ON ITS OWN INDEPENDENT TRACK FOR EMONDAY WITH TEMPS 8 TO 12 DEG ABOVE THE MAV AND FAN. WILL TRIM BACK FROM THAT, BUT BELIEVE THE MAV IS TOO COOL BASED ON HOW IT PERFORMED FOR OUR CWA TODAY. .DLH...NONE. CS
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:47 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
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, June 16 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 16 to 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, June 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, June 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: 5255343.