Illinois, 2005

Hail in Illinois, June 24, 2005

June 24, 2005 · NWS ILX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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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 Jun 24, 1:25 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:25 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
225 PM CDT FRI JUN 24 2005

.DISCUSSION...LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS HAD LOW PRESSURE CENTERED OVER
NORTHERN QUEBEC...AND A WAVY FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING SOUTHWEST
TOWARD THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. MAIN CONCERNS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS
REVOLVE PRECIPITATION CHANCES (IF ANY) WITH THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY
AND HOW HOT IT WILL GET DAILY.

12Z MODELS IN GOOD OVERALL AGREEMENT...THOUGH THERE IS SOME
DISAGREEMENT IN HOW FAR SOUTH THE FRONT WILL PUSH INTO ILLINOIS. THE
FRONTAL PLACEMENT IS KEY TO THE PRECIPITATION FORECAST...BUT WILL
TEND TO FAVOR A LESS AGGRESSIVE SOLUTION AS THE FRONT IS ALREADY
NEARLY PARALLEL TO THE UPPER FLOW. GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES GENERALLY
CLOSE/REASONABLE...WITH SUBTLE DIFFERENCES OWING TO THE FORECAST
FRONTAL POSITION...SO WILL NOT STRAY TOO FAR.

SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...

TONIGHT...ANOTHER WARM AND MUGGY NIGHT ON TAP ACROSS FORECAST AREA.
THE FRONT (AND THE UPPER WAVE/JET RIDING ALONG IT) SHOULD STAY FAR
ENOUGH NORTH/WEST OF THE REGION THROUGH THE NIGHT TO PRECLUDE
PRECIPITATION.

SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...A FAIRLY VIGOROUS UPPER WAVE/JET WILL MOVE
ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA AND PUSH THE FRONT INTO ILLINOIS BY SATURDAY.
AFTERNOON INSTABILITY IS GOOD WITH CAPE VALUES OF AT LEAST 2000 J/KG
AND LI VALUES AROUND -5 EXPECTED. HOWEVER...ASIDE FROM WEAK FRONTAL
CONVERGENCE...THERE IS LITTLE DYNAMIC FORCING AND DEEP LAYER WIND
FIELDS ARE RATHER WEAK AND UNIDIRECTIONAL. SO...WILL GO DRY ON
SATURDAY. A COUPLE PIECES OF ENERGY EJECT OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST U.S.
UPPER TROF AND PUSH THE FRONT BACK NORTH OF ILLINOIS AS A WARM FRONT
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THESE IMPULSES WILL PASS SOMEWHAT CLOSER
TO FORECAST AREA THAN THOSE OF SATURDAY (AND POTENTIAL INSTABILITY
WILL BE SIMILAR)...SO WILL CARRY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS/STORMS
ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF FORECAST AREA.

AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES ARE CONCERNED...NOT MUCH CHANGE IS EXPECTED
IN THE AIRMASS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL
GENERALLY REMAIN IN THE LOWER 70S...WITH DAYTIME HIGHS IN THE MID
90S. AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES WILL BE PUSHING 100 AS WELL.

LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...MODEL AGREEMENT CONTINUES TO BE
FAIR THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH CONSIDERABLE ENSEMBLE SPREAD. ENERGY
IS STILL EXPECTED TO EJECT OUT OF THE WESTERN U.S. TROF AND FLATTEN
THE EASTERN U.S. RIDGE AS THE FLOW GRADUALLY BECOMES LESS AMPLIFIED.
HOWEVER...THE TIMING OF WHEN THIS ENERGY ARRIVES ACROSS THE REGION
AND HOW MUCH MOISTURE IS AVAILABLE IS STILL UNCERTAIN. HAVE ADDED A
SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS/STORMS TO THURSDAY/THURSDAY NIGHT GRIDS TO
GO WITH CURRENT MODEL CONSENSUS...BUT THIS WILL LIKELY NEED FINE
TUNING AS THE FORECAST RANGE BECOMES SHORTER.

&&

.ILX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IL...NONE.

BAK
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 10:04 AM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL
1104 AM CDT FRI JUN 24 2005

ILZ027>031-036>038-040>048-050>057-061>063-066>068-071>073-251100-
CASS-CHAMPAIGN-CHRISTIAN-CLARK-CLAY-COLES-CRAWFORD-CUMBERLAND-
DE WITT-DOUGLAS-EDGAR-EFFINGHAM-FULTON-JASPER-KNOX-LAWRENCE-LOGAN-
MACON-MARSHALL-MASON-MCLEAN-MENARD-MORGAN-MOULTRIE-PEORIA-PIATT-
RICHLAND-SANGAMON-SCHUYLER-SHELBY-STARK-TAZEWELL-VERMILION-WOODFORD-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...CHAMPAIGN...DANVILLE...
DECATUR...EFFINGHAM...FLORA...GALESBURG...HAVANA...JACKSONVILLE...
LAWRENCEVILLE...LINCOLN...MATTOON...PEORIA...SHELBYVILLE...
SPRINGFIELD AND TAYLORVILLE
1104 AM CDT FRI JUN 24 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AS A WEAK
COOL FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. THE BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 36 AND INTERSTATE 72. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE
WEATHER ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

&&
THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATE
INFORMATION...IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT:

HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LINCOLN. THIS ADDRESS IS ALL IN LOWER CASE.

HJS

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:46 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jasper

When
June 24, 3:49 PM CST
Where
Jasper County, 2 mi SE of Newton
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
38.967, -88.133

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5455418.