Hail, Pipestone
- When
- June 27, 3:28 PM CST
- Where
- Pipestone County, 2 mi SW of Pipestone
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.983, -96.350
Hail in Minnesota, June 27, 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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 2:04 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:04 PM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 304 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 SYNOPSIS...AT 12Z CWA WAS IN NORTHWEST FLOW BEHIND EXITING TROUGH. SHORT WAVE WAS EVIDENT OVER MONTANA AND NORTH DAKOTA AS AN AREA OF 500 HEIGHT FALLS. SFC COLD FRONT WAS ALONG THE US CANADIAN BORDER. AT 18Z...A WEAK LOW PRESSURE AREA WAS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING SHORT WAVE. FORECAST...WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING SHORT WAVE DROPPING ACROSS CWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MOISTURE SCARCE BELOW 8000 FEET SO NOT ANTICIPATING A LOT OF ACTION. SOME ELEVATED INSTABILITY SO DO EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT. SHOULD LOSE QUITE A BIT ONCE THE SUN GOES DOWN. LOWS SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN LAST NIGHT WITH A LITTLE WIND AND CLOUD COVER. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY JUST ABOUT CARBON COPIES OF EACH OTHER...WARM AND NOT VERY HUMID. NORTHWEST FLOW STILL HANGING AROUND SO AN ISOLATED SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM AT SOME TIME LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION BUT NOT A GOOD ENOUGH CHANCE TO INCLUDE IN FORECAST. BY MONDAY...UPPER LEVEL RIDGE TRYING TO BUILD IN...WITH A MORE STOUT SOUTHERLY FLOW DEVELOPING. SHOULD START TO SEE DEW POINTS GO UP BY THEN...AS WELL AS INCREASING CHANCES FOR THUNDER. EXTENDED...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS AND ENSEMBLES SHOW REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH OVERALL PATTERN THRU THE EXTENDED PERIOD. A DEFINITE WARMING TREND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD AS RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD OVER THE AREA AND 850 TEMPS WARM. AS 500 MB TROUGH DIGS INTO THE PACIFIC NW AREA WILL BECOME MORE WESTERLY...THIS SHOULD ALLOW A FEW WEAK DISTURBANCES TO SWEEP THRU THE AREA AND HAVE KEPT POPS IN FOR WED AND THU AND HAVE ADDED THEM FOR FRIDAY. .FSD...NONE JRM/08
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 9:45 AM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-IAZ001>003- 012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-281200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1045 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY AND SPREAD EAST INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA BY EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE MAINLY NORTHEAST OF A HURON TO WINDOM LINE. FLOODING... FLOODING HAS BEEN OCCURRING ALONG THE LOWER VERMILLION RIVER IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...AND ALONG PORTIONS OF THE LITTLE SIOUX AND MAPLE RIVERS IN NORTHWEST IOWA. REFER TO THE FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER 4 PM NORTHEAST OF A HURON TO WINDOM LINE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:27 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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 27, 2003
- Flooding in Iowa, June 27 to 30, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 27, 2003
- Heavy Rain in Louisiana, June 27, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, June 27, 2003
- Hail in Kansas, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 27, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maine, June 27, 2003
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, June 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: 5365714.