Hail, Clay
- When
- June 13, 3:42 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County, Dickens
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.133, -95.033
Hail in Iowa, June 13, 2005
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 13, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:20 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 320 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 .DISCUSSION... NRLY STACKED LOW IN NERN NE WL MOV NEWD OVR MN TNGT WITH UNSTABLE WARM SECTOR SCT TSTMS AHEAD OF LOW...TO WRAPAROUND SHWRS/SCT TSTMS BEHIND LOW TNGT. HEAVY RAIN STILL PSBL WITH WRAPAROUND AS HAS BEEN OCCURRING NEAR WINNER IN SCNTRL SD THIS AFTN...BUT APPEARS ENERGY JUMPING TO EAST...SO WILL LET FLOOD WATCH EXPIRE AT 6 PM. NUISANCE WRAPAROUND SCT SHWRS STILL EXPCD TO PULL EWD THRU CWA TUE...BUT SLOWER THAN CURRENT FCST. HIGHS TUES SHOULD OCCUR LATE AS CLDS SLOWLY BREAK UP FM W TO E IN CWA DURG AFTN. THEN WILL KEEP THE DRY FCST WITH WARMING TREND SPRDG EWD OVR CWA WED THRU WEEKEND AS UPR RDG BUILDS OVER AREA. TREND IS FOR PERSISTENT SLY FLOW TO BRING BACK MORE HUMIDITY ALSO...SO GUID TEMPS...ESP LOWS...STILL LOOK A LIT ON THE COOL SIDE. THERE IS THE OUTSIDE PSBLTY OF A FEW RIDGE RIDING TSTMS ESP WITH NOCTURNAL JET AT SOME POINT...BUT WAY TOO IFFY TO PUT IN FCST. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 6PM CDT FOR SDZ038-050-052-053-057>059-063-064. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. && RSR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 11:55 AM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1255 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-141200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 1255 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A MARSHALL MINNESOTA TO SPENCER IOWA LINE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OUTSIDE OF THE MODERATE RISK AREA...INCLUDING SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...FAR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF A WARM FRONT THAT IS SITUATED NEAR I 90 THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. OTHERWISE...THE SLIGHT AND MODERATE RISK AREAS COULD PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE AND HALF INCHES WITH THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH. FURTHERMORE...WEST OF A BON HOMME COUNTY TO KINGSBURY COUNTY LINE...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN COULD FALL THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...WHERE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN COULD OCCUR IN SMALL AREAS OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. FLOODING... SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FAIRLY PERSISTENT THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE DAY TODAY WEST OF THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING WILL TOTAL OVER ONE INCH IN MANY LOCATIONS. RAINFALL RATES WITH SOME OF THE MORE INTENSE ACTIVITY MAY RESULT IN PONDING AND FLOODING. FLOODING WILL OCCUR ON PORTIONS OF THE LOWER VERMILLION RIVER THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IN ADDITION...MINOR FLOODING WILL OCCUR ON THE LITTLE VERMILLION NEAR SALEM...FIRESTEEL CREEK FROM MOUNT VERNON TO NEAR MITCHELL...AND THE JAMES RIVER NEAR MITCHELL THROUGH EARLY THIS WEEK. HOWEVER...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...OTHER RIVERS AND STREAMS MAY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS THROUGH THE NWS SIOUX FALLS INTERNET SITE AND YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION ON TUESDAY WILL CREATE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE EAST OF INTERSTATE 29 ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. THESE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO SUBSIDE LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER && 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), 146 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:41 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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 13 to 14, 2005
- Flash Flood in New York, June 13 to 14, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 13, 2005
- Flash Flood and Hail in Illinois, June 13 to 14, 2005
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in New York, June 13, 2005
- Flood and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 13, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 13, 2005
- Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 13, 2005
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 2005
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: 5459997.