Hail in Iowa, September 18, 2005

Name: Hail in Iowa, September 18, 2005
Start: 2005-09-18T21:55
End: 2005-09-18T22:25
Location: Iowa

September 18, 2005 · NWS FSD · 3 events in 1 county or zone

3 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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Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 Sep 18, 3:15 PM CST, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 3:15 PM CST, 6 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
415 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

ACTIVE WX TONIGHT AS S/W MOVES NEWD ACRS NRN PLAINS. BEST SVR WX
TRHEAT ACRS SERN HALF OF CWA. WATCHES ALREADY IN EFFECT. MOST ACTIVE
PD SHUD BE FM 00Z TO 05Z FOR SVR WX WITH THREAT DECREASING AFTER
THAT.

BULK OF PRECIP SHUD BE OVR BY 12Z BUT WL LINGER RW OVR SW MN THRU
MID MORN. COOLER AIR WITH TEMP COVR CWA ON MON...BUT WARMUP TUES AND
WED AHEAD OF NEXT S/W. WL KEEP TRW IN FCST WED AFTN AND NIGHT WITH
THIS FEATURE.

ACTIVE PATTERN WITH WLYS ACRS NRN PLAINS SO YET ANTOEHR THREAT OF
PRECIP SAT.
&&

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

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 18, 2:05 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
305 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098-
IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-191200-
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-
305 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 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 ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND INCREASE RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...WITH ISOLATED STORMS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90. THE
STORMS WILL THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA
IN THE EVENING. NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90...THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE
STORMS WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. ALONG AND SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 90...DAMAGING WINDS TO 65 MPH AND UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD END
AROUND MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY NIGHT EAST
OF INTERSTATE 29. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF A
LINE FROM DE SMET TO TYNDALL SOUTH DAKOTA.  THE STORMS WILL
SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND INTO
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA WEDNESDAY EVENING.  A FEW
OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER 500 PM.

&&

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

WILLIAMS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 18, 8:30 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
930 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

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

0930 PM     HAIL             4 N LETCHER             43.96N 98.14W
09/18/2005  0.88 INCH        SANBORN            SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Sep 18, 8:42 PM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
942 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

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

0900 PM     HAIL             WESSINGTON SPRINGS      44.08N 98.57W
09/18/2005  0.88 INCH        JERAULD            SD   PUBLIC

&&

CJ

Local storm report, Sep 18, 9:04 PM CST, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1004 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

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

0955 PM     HAIL             9 S FEDORA              43.88N 97.79W
09/18/2005  1.00 INCH        MINER              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJANSEN

Local storm report, Sep 18, 9:28 PM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1028 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

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

1020 PM     HAIL             3 NW CANOVA             43.91N 97.55W
09/18/2005  1.75 INCH        MINER              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

1025 PM     HAIL             CANOVA                  43.88N 97.50W
09/18/2005  1.75 INCH        MINER              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CJANSEN

Local storm report, Sep 18, 9:38 PM CST, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1038 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

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

1015 PM     HAIL             6 N ELK POINT           42.77N 96.68W
09/18/2005  1.00 INCH        UNION              SD   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL LASTED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES

&&

CJANSEN

Local storm report, Sep 18, 9:46 PM CST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1046 PM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005

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

1035 PM     HAIL             9 WNW HINTON            42.67N 96.46W
09/18/2005  1.25 INCH        PLYMOUTH           IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LASTED FOR 10 MINUTES.

&&

CJANSEN

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:54 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Plymouth

When: September 18, 9:55 PM CST
Where: Plymouth County, Merrill
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.717, -96.250

Hail, Plymouth

When: September 18, 10:14 PM CST to 10:15 PM CST
Where: Plymouth County, 5 mi W of Kingsley
Measured: 1.25 in hail
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 42.583, -96.067

Large hail covered the ground.

Hail, Plymouth

When: September 18, 10:25 PM CST
Where: Plymouth County, Kingsley
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.583, -95.967

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, September 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: 5479349, 5479350, 5479351.