Hail, Carroll
- When
- October 7, 9:27 AM CST
- Where
- Carroll County, Carroll
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.067, -94.883
Hail in Iowa, October 7, 2004
Thunderstorms lifted northeast across western Iowa during the morning of the 7th. The airmass was now all that unstable with lifted indices around +2, however elevated convection was able to take place.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- $5,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS DMX wrote it up.
Thunderstorms lifted northeast across western Iowa during the morning of the 7th. The airmass was now all that unstable with lifted indices around +2, however elevated convection was able to take place. Surface dew points were around 60 F. an freezing levels were around 10,000 feet. Several storms produced some small hail, with one storm producing nickel size hail in the Carroll Area.
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:24 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
More
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5424943.