Hail, Woodford
- When
- July 7, 8:26 AM CST
- Where
- Woodford County, Minonk
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.900, -89.033
Hail in Illinois, July 7, 2003
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 Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 2:00 AM CST, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:00 AM CST, 6 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 300 AM CDT MON JUL 7 2003 THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER OVER NORTHERN IOWA IS DEVELOPING ALONG/NORTH OF WARM FRONT AT THE NOSE OF THE LOW LEVEL JET. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO REMAIN NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT...WHICH IS NORTH OF THE CWA. AIRMASS OVER OUR AREA WILL ONCE AGAIN BE QUITE UNSTABLE WITH A VERY WEAK CAP. IF THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS CAN PUSH AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AS FAR SOUTH AS OUR NORTHERN ZONES...AFTERNOON REDEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE. IT IS STILL UNCERTAIN WHETHER THIS WILL OCCUR...AS THE STORMS WILL BECOME MORE ELEVATED WITH TIME. WILL RETAIN DRY FORECAST IN THE 1ST PERIOD FOR NOW...WITH ANY AFTERNOON CONVECTION TOO ISOLATED FOR MENTION AT THIS TIME. AS FOR THE LATER PERIODS...LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER MCS WILL BE ON TAP FOR TONIGHT...WHICH WILL PUSH INTO THE NORTHERN ZONES. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THIS ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN NORTH OF OUR SOUTHERN ZONES...SO WILL DROP POPS FOR THEM TONIGHT. TONIGHTS MCS AND SUBSEQUENT CLUSTERS WILL FORCE THE SYNOPTIC FRONT SOUTHWARD INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS IS ADVERTISED BY ALL MODELS. THE GFS APPEARS TO SUFFER FROM THE USUAL GRID SCALE FEEDBACK PROBLEMS...WHICH DEEPENS WAVES ALONG THE SURFACE FRONT TOO MUCH. WILL FOLLOW THE ETA IN THE LATER PERIODS...WHICH SUGGESTS THAT PRECIPITATION NORTH OF THE FRONT MAY EXTEND INTO THE NORTHERN ZONES. WILL ADD POPS THERE FOR WENDESDAY NIGHT. DO NOT PLAN ANY CHANGES TO DAYS 5 THROUGH 7 AT THIS TIME. ..04.. .ILX...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 8:18 AM CST, 8 minutes before
ILZ027>031-036>038-040>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-081100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL ...UPDATED... 918 AM CDT MON JUL 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT MAINLY NORTH OF A QUINCY TO DECATUR TO TERRE HAUTE LINE. AN UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIRMASS WILL COMBINE WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHED ACROSS NORTHERN ILLINOIS TO PRODUCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH TONIGHT. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FOUND AT LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 74. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ACROSS CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER ALL OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS...BOTH ON TUESDAY...THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND INTO EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/ILX. THIS ADDRESS IS ALL IN LOWER CASE. PLAHMER
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:28 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
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 7, 2003
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Ohio, July 7 to 8, 2003
- Hail in Iowa, July 7, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, July 7, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 7, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Indiana, July 7 to 8, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 7, 2003
- Flood in Ohio, July 7 to 13, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 7, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, July 7, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 7, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 7, 2003
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, July 2003
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: 5330310.