Hail, Wilkin
- When
- June 27, 7:58 PM CST
- Where
- Wilkin County, 4 mi E of Kent
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.433, -96.600
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 Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 6:15 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 6:15 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND 715 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 .FORECAST DETAILS... WILL KEEP IT BRIEF WITH POCKETS OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE CWFA THIS EVENING. SHORTWAVE TROUGH/ASSOCIATED FAVORABLE LEFT EXIT REGION OF 100KT 250MB JET MAX PUNCHING SOUTHEAST THROUGH DAKOTAS ATTM. EXPECT SURFACE TROUGH CURRENTLY OVER CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA TO PUNCH EAST AND SHIFT MAIN CONVECTIVE FOCUS INTO MY MINNESOTA COUNTIES LATER THIS EVENING. INHERITED FORECAST PRETTY MUCH HAS CURRENT CONVECTIVE TRENDS IN ORDER...THUS NO MAJOR REVISIONS PLANNED AT THE MOMENT. .FGF...NONE BERG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:05 AM CST, 14 hours 53 minutes before
MNZ001>009-013>017-022>024-027>032-040-NDZ006>008-014>016-024- 026>030-038-039-049-052>054-271300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS 605 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 ...A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS ACROSS EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA...WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA... NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON...TRACK INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA BY LATE AFTERNOON...AND THEN MOVE INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND ITS ASSOCIATED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN ALL BUT SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY...AND FOR THE WHOLE AREA FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FGF/INDEX.HTML (ALL LOWER CASE) NG
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:53 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: 5366904.