Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2005

Name: Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2005
Start: 2005-06-20T16:05
End: 2005-06-20T16:05
Location: Iowa

June 20, 2005 · NWS FSD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

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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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:30 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
330 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

.DISCUSSION...
ONGOING SVR WX. NO DISCUSSION.

&&

.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
MN...NONE.
IA...NONE.
NE...NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 12:19 PM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
119 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-211200-
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-
119 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP ALONG A SERIES OF OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90 THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...THEN PROGRESS SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA. A FEW OF THE
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND PENNY SIZE
HAIL AS THE PRIMARY THREAT...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 90. HOWEVER...THERE IS AN ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT
ALONG ANY OF THESE BOUNDARIES THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

EXCESSIVE TEMPERATURES...
HEAT INDICES WILL RISE INTO THE 100 TO 105 RANGE THIS AFTERNOON
WEST OF INTERSTATE 29...AS TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE LOWER 90S
AND DEW POINTS REMAIN IN THE 70 TO 75 RANGE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS STILL A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 90 TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE
AREA TUESDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD ALSO BE SEVERE.

A COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA THURSDAY
NIGHT...BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH IT. A FEW
OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER 2 PM NORTH OF INTERSTATE
90.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/FSD. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS
WEATHER OUTLOOK.

BT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:16 PM CST, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
416 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0322 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 W JASPER              43.85N 96.48W
06/20/2005                   MOODY              SD   EMERGENCY MNGR

            5 TO 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCHES DOWN.

0355 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 SW MAGNOLIA           43.60N 96.13W
06/20/2005  60 MPH           ROCK               MN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

GH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:21 PM CST, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
421 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0419 PM     TSTM WND GST     ADRIAN                  43.63N 95.93W
06/20/2005  60 MPH           NOBLES             MN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

GH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:23 PM CST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
423 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0422 PM     TSTM WND GST     6 S ADRIAN              43.55N 95.93W
06/20/2005  60 MPH           NOBLES             MN   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

GH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:39 PM CST, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
439 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0423 PM     HAIL             6 N SPIRIT LAKE         43.51N 95.11W
06/20/2005  0.75 INCH        JACKSON            MN   PUBLIC

0437 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SPIRIT LAKE             43.42N 95.11W
06/20/2005                   DICKINSON          IA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            BUILDING DAMAGE IN SPIRIT LAKE FROM WIND.

&&

GH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 4:00 PM CST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
500 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0453 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 ESE MELVIN            43.26N 95.54W
06/20/2005  60 MPH           OSCEOLA            IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

GH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 4:05 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
505 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0503 PM     TSTM WND GST     LAKE PARK               43.45N 95.32W
06/20/2005  60 MPH           DICKINSON          IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SOME SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

&&

GH

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Dickinson

When: June 20, 4:05 PM CST
Where: Dickinson County, 4 mi W of Spirit Lake
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.433, -95.183

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

Every storm in Iowa in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5457962.