Hail, Polk
- When
- July 6, 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Polk County, 4 mi SE of Davidson
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.850, -96.800
Hail in Minnesota, July 6, 2003
2 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
- 2
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 2:30 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:30 AM CST, 30 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 330 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003 .SHORT TERM... ETA AND GFS SIMILAR WITH SURFACE PATTERN AND UPPER AIR PATTERN HOWEVER ETA IS SLIGHTLY FARTHER SOUTH. HOWEVER PREFER GFS AS IT HANDLES CURRENT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER SOUTHEAST ALBERTA IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH MODELS. WATER VAPOR LOOP ALSO SHOWING LAST OF A SERIES OF SHORT WAVES ALONG SOUTH DAKOTA/NEBRASKA BORDER MOVING EAST WITH DOWNSTREAM CONVECTION OVER NE/IA. WITH NO ADDITIONAL CONVECTION ROBBING DEEP MOISTURE MOVING NORTHWARD AND WITH APPROACHING ALBERTA UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND UPPER JET, EXPECT HIGH 850 HPA THETA-E AIR TO ADVECT NORTH TODAY. PREFER THE SLOWER GFS TO BRING IN MORE STABLE AIR LATER TONIGHT. COLD FRONT IN WESTERN ND WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECIPITABLE WATERS RISE TO AN INCH AND A HALF IN THE SOUTHEAST ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. ETA MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOWING LOW LEVELS WARMING EARLY THIS MORNING AND IMPLIED CONVERGENCE WITH LOW LEVEL EAST WINDS FORECAST TO BECOME WESTERLY BY 12Z. THEN LOWER TROPOSHERE COOLS THE REST OF THE DAY AS LOW LEVEL FLOW BACKS. COOLING CONTINUES SUNDAY NIGHT THEN SHIFTS TO LOWER LEVELS (CENTERED AROUND 850 HPA) FOR MONDAY. .LONG TERM... NO CHANGES. .FGF...NONE HOPPES
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 6:14 AM CST, 20 hours 46 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-051400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 714 AM CDT SAT JUL 5 2003 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALL OF EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AFTER 11 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH 6 AM SUNDAY MORNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOST LIKELY PRODUCE SOME LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WARM MOIST AIR WILL MOVE NORTH INTO THE RED RIVER VALLEY TONIGHT AND DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE LIKELY ON SUNDAY WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED OVER THE SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA OR SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VALLEY CITY TO MAYVILLE NORTH DAKOTA TO BAUDETTE MINNESOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. HOPPES
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:58 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Red Lake
- When
- July 6, 3:30 AM CST
- Where
- Red Lake County, 1 mi N of Huot
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 47.900, -96.400
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 Flood in North Carolina, July 6, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, July 6, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 6 to 7, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, July 6 to 7, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 6, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 6 to 7, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 6, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 6, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, July 6, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 6, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 6, 2003
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, 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: 5369030, 5369031.