Hail, Plymouth
- When
- September 18, 6:00 PM CST to 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Plymouth County, Struble
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.900, -96.183
Hail in Iowa, September 18, 2002
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 18, 2:35 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 2:35 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 335 PM CDT WED SEP 18 2002 LOW PRES TROF AND CDFNT MOVG HALFWAY INTO CWA LATE THIS AFTN...AND DRY SLOTTING EFFECT PRECLUDING MUCH IF ANY PRECIP NR AND W OF FNT. WILL KEEP SCT TO CHC IN ERN AND FAR NRN CWA THIS EVE WHERE BEST CHC OF UPR TROF INTERACTING WITH LINGERING SLY FLW OF MILD MOIST AIR. OTRW WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR WRAPAROUND WHICH DOES NOT LOOK LIKE MUCH EXCPT MAYBE NRN CWA LATE TNGT INTO EARLY THU. THERE IS ALSO A LINGERING CHC OF SHWRS IN FAR SERN PTN OF CWA IN NWRN IA THU AFTN AND NGT AS UPR LOW CLOSES OFF WELL S OF CWA. FNT LOOKS DRY FOR LATE FRI...BUT WILL KEEP CHC LGT SHWRS JUST BEHIND FNT. REALLY GETS IFFY IN EXTD AND WILL GO WITH COMPOSITE OF LONG RANGE MODELS...PUTTING CHC IN SUN NGT...SPRDG E OVR CWA LATER MON INTO MON NGT...ENDING FM NW TO SE TUE...ALG WITH BIG COOLING FOR THIS PERIOD. WILL KEEP TEMPS ABV FROST LVLS FOR NOW...BUT WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED. .FSD...NONE RYRHOLM
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:04 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
- Flood and Hail in Iowa, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 18, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Oklahoma, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 18, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Minnesota, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, September 18, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Dakota, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 18, 2002
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, September 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, September 18, 2002
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, September 2002
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: 5320643.