Iowa, 2002

Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2002

June 20, 2002 · NWS FSD · 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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  • 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 2:35 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:35 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
335 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002

FIRST BAND OF SHWRS/TSTMS ASSCD WITH MID LVL WRM ADV MOVG NWD THRU
FAR NRN CWA ATTM. EXPCT TSTMS TO FIRE IN NEB WITH STG E/W BOUNDARY
THIS EVE AND JUICY AIR FEEDING NWD FM CNTRL PLAINS ON NOCTURNAL JET.
THESE TSTMS SHOULD SPRD NEWD OVR MUCH OF CWA LATER TNGT. EXPCT
NORMAL DIURNAL PATTERN FOR FRI WITH LINGERING STUFF IN MRNG...AND
REDLVMPT IN AFTN AS WMFNT WILL STILL BE IN AREA AND AIR MASS SHOULD
NOT BE CAPPED OFF YET. EXPCT BOUNDARY TO LIFT N FRI NGT AND SAT WITH
LINGERING CHC TSTMS IN FAR NRN CWA SAT INTO SUN. NEXT WAVE SHOULD
PROGRESS SEWD OVR CWA SUN NGT WITH CHC TSTMS. IT STARTS TO GET MORE
FUZZY MON INTO TUE...SO WILL BASICALLY BROADBRUSH A CHC TSTMS. KEPT
DRY FOR WED INTO THU...AS MRF CHC PRECIP FOR THU LOOKS SUSPICIOUS IN
UPR RDG. SUMMERLIKE HUMIDITY AND WARMTH EXPCD THRU FCST PERIOD.

.FSD...NONE
RSR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 2:32 PM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
332 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0845 PM    HUDSON                    SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/19/02   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0850 PM    4 SW ROCK VLY             IA   1 INCH HAIL
06/19/02   SIOUX

0850 PM    4 SW ROCK VLY             IA   50 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/02   SIOUX

0925 PM    2 S GEORGE                IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/19/02   LYON

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Plymouth

When
June 20, 7:30 PM CST
Where
Plymouth County, 5 mi SE of Le Mars
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
42.733, -96.100

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: 5305930.