Hail in Iowa, June 9, 2005

Name: Hail in Iowa, June 9, 2005
Start: 2005-06-09T01:27
End: 2005-06-09T01:27
Location: Iowa

June 9, 2005 · NWS DVN · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A weak upper level disturbance allowed scattered thunderstorms to develop across Eastern Iowa. One storm became marginally severe and produced some penny size hailstones just west of Olin.

Where it happened

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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 happened

The episode as NWS DVN wrote it up.

A weak upper level disturbance allowed scattered thunderstorms to develop across Eastern Iowa. One storm became marginally severe and produced some penny size hailstones just west of Olin.

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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 8:40 PM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 8:40 PM CST, 4 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO REMOVE WIND ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
940 PM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

.UPDATE...
AREA OF SHRA/TSRA IN SRN IA EXPANDING AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST. EXPECT
ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE ITS MOVEMENT INTO OUR CWA. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO
REFLECT THIS.

&&

.DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM...
IA...NONE.
IL...NONE.
MO...NONE.

JAZ

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 4:29 AM CST, 20 hours 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
529 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-091100-
BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO-
CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL-
HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA-
JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA-
MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL-
SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL-
WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL-
529 AM CDT WED JUN 8 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST...EAST
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST IOWA...NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL...AND WEST
CENTRAL ILLINOIS...AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THIS AFTERNOON...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST IOWA WILL
MOVE ACROSS THE REGION BETWEEN 9 AM AND 4 PM.  SOME OF THE STRONGEST
STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE FOR LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND
STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS OF 50 TO 70 MPH. THE LOCATION
OF GREATEST RISK IS SOUTHEAST IOWA...WEST OF A DUBUQUE TO KEOKUK
LINE. AT THIS TIME...ANY SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE ISOLATED AND NOT BE
WIDESPREAD DUE LIMITED TRIGGER OR FORCING WITH THIS LINE.

THIS EVENING INTO OVERNIGHT...AREAS OF CONVECTION WILL RE-DEVELOP OR
MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM MISSOURI AND CENTRAL IOWA. THE STRONGEST
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND
GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 TO 50 MPH.  THE LOCATION OF GREATEST RISK WILL
BE ALONG AND ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF I-80.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT
ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE
DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...ESPECIALLY WITH
THUNDERSTORMS THAT BECOME ORGANIZED INTO LINES. THERE WILL ALSO BE A
RISK OF HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING WHERE
STORMS IMPACT AREAS ALREADY SATURATED BY REPEATED HEAVY RAIN EVENTS.

FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR COMPLEXES
OF THUNDERSTORMS TO IMPACT PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA EACH
DAY....ESPECIALLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. THERE
WILL BE A CONTINUED THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...THERE WILL
BE AN INCREASING RISK FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING WHERE SEVERAL ROUNDS OF
HEAVY RAINFALL IMPACT THE SAME AREA. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ON
TIMING AND AREAS OF GREATEST RISK WILL BE AVAILABLE AS THIS TIME
PERIOD NEARS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS SHOULD MONITOR CONDITIONS LATER TODAY
FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY BETWEEN 2 AND 9 PM.

NICHOLS/SHEETS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 7:28 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
828 PM CDT WED JUN 08 2005

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

0115 PM     TSTM WND DMG     STRONGHURST             40.75N 90.90W
06/08/2005                   HENDERSON          IL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WIND DAMAGE TO A HOUSE.

0200 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 S BUSHNELL            40.52N 90.50W
06/08/2005                   MCDONOUGH          IL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SIX UTILITY POLES DOWNED ALONG IL HIGHWAY 41 BETWEEN IL
            HIGHWAY 9 AND IL HIGHWAY 95. ONE POWER POLE FELL ON A
            CAR. CAR/S OCCUPANTS WERE UNHARMED.

&&

JAZ

Local storm report, Jun 8, 7:36 PM CST, 5 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
836 PM CDT WED JUN 08 2005

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

0125 PM     TSTM WND DMG     STRONGHURST             40.75N 90.90W
06/08/2005                   HENDERSON          IL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WIND DAMAGE TO A HOUSE.

&&

JAZ

Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:07 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1207 AM CDT THU JUN 09 2005

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

1155 PM     HAIL             4 NE FAIRFIELD          41.05N 91.91W
06/08/2005  0.50 INCH        JEFFERSON          IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL

&&

DLS

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:25 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Jones

When: June 9, 1:27 AM CST
Where: Jones County, 2 mi W of Olin
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.000, -91.183

Mostly pea sized but a few penny sized stones.

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: 5462672.