Hail, Pierce
- When
- June 17, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Pierce County, 4 mi SE of Plum City
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.600, -92.133
Hail in Wisconsin, June 17, 2001
3 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
- 3
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 Jun 17, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 255 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 MAIN FOCUS OF FCST IS THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN/SVR TSTMS IN SRN FCST AREA TONIGHT. GENERALLY LEANED TWD ETA MODEL SOLUTION...AS AVN WAS A BIT TOO FAR W WITH EVOLUTION SFC LOW ON MONDAY. CURRENT BATCH OF -RA MOVE SEWD ACRS FCST AREA ASSOCIATED WITH MID LEVEL WAA/315K ISENTROPIC LIFT. IT IS WEAKENING AS IT EXITS REGION OF BEST INSTABILITY OVER SD. OUTFLOW FROM THIS SYSTEM HAS REINFORCED WARM FRONT OVER NRN IA/SRN SD. THIS WILL SERVE AS TRIGGER FOR MCS DEVELOPMENT LATER TONIGHT. INITIAL STORMS ALONG FRONT MAY CLIP EXTREME SW COUNTIES WITH PSBL SVR WEATHER...AS EXTREME INSTABILITY ESCAPES CAP SEEN ON 18Z OAX SOUNDING AND IS LIFTED NWD. BY 06Z...MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ON NOSE OF 60KT SWLY LOW LEVEL JET WILL SUPPORT MCS OVER SE MN. ORGANIZED CONVECTION WILL WILL HAVE A TENDENCY TO MOVE SE PER CORFIDI VECTORS/THICKNESSES... SO FAR SRN MN LOOK TO BE BULLSEYE FOR STGR STORMS. EXCESSIVE RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH PW NR 1.75 INCHES AND SEMI-TROPICAL CONNECTION SEEN IN 6.7 IR. HISTORY OF RECENT FLOODING IN SRN AREAS...AND WILL ISSUED FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO COVER POSSIBLE HYDRO PROBLEMS. LOW MOVES NE ACRS FCST AREA MONDAY...WITH STG INSTABILITY FCST TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF CDFNT MOVING INTO ERN AREAS BY AFTN. HAVE KEPT MID RANGE POPS IN TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS...BUT OUTFLOW FROM OVERNIGHT MCS MAY SUPRESS MAIN CONVECTION THREAT FURTHER SOUTH. MRF/AVN/ECMWF ALL STILL BRINGING DRIER NW FLOW REGIME INTO THE STATE BY MID WEEK. PASSAGE OF UPPER LOW PRECEDES THIS ON WEDNESDAY...SO HAVE INCLUDED A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. FOLLOWING INITIAL SURGE OF COOLEmR TEMPS...APPEARS DRY WX/WARMING TREND WILL GET UNDERWAY BY END OF THE WEEK. .MSP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT...BLUE EARTH...FARIBAULT...FREEBORN LE SUEUR...MARTIN...RICE...STEELE...WASECA...WATONWAN. DAVIS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 6:14 PM CST, 36 minutes before
MNZ064-073-180035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 714 PM CDT SUN JUN 17 2001 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH FOR YELLOW MEDICINE AND REDWOOD COUNTIES...THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EARLY EVENING HAS ENDED ACROSS THIS, PORTION OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:48 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Pepin
- When
- June 17, 8:39 PM CST
- Where
- Pepin County, Stockholm
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.483, -92.267
Hail, Pepin
- When
- June 17, 8:39 PM CST
- Where
- Pepin County, Pepin
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 44.433, -92.150
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
- Heat in Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 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: 5254464, 5254465, 5254466.