Hail, Nobles
- When
- June 29, 3:33 AM CST
- Where
- Nobles County, 7 mi NW of Lismore
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.817, -96.050
Hail in Minnesota, June 29, 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 29, 12:53 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 12:53 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 153 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 .DISCUSSION... WL WRITE AN EARLY DISC IN CASE CONVECTION BREAKS OUT A BIT LATER. CURRENTLY...SOME TS HAS FIRED RIGHT ALONG I 90 BETWEEN KMHE AND KFSD. THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VERY STRONG H85 WMFNT LIFTING NWD AND ON THE NOSE OF THE H7 CAP. YESTERDAY THE NAM HAD PROGGED A VERY STRONG 50KT WIND AT 6 KM FOR RIGHT NOW...HOWEVER REALITY FM AREA RAOBS AND PROFILERS SHOW THE 6 KM WIND AT ONLY 15 TO 25 KTS. THIS GOES QUITE AWAYS IN EXPLAINING THE LACK OF UPPER FORCING IN KEEPING THE CONVECTION FM GETTING OUT OF CONTROL TONIGHT...AT LEAST SO FAR. AS TIME PROGRESSES OVER THE NEXT 6 HRS...A VERY STRONG H7 THERMAL RIDGE SHOOTS NWD INTO THIS FA...AFFECTING ALL AREAS IN THE FA EXCEPT OUR FAR N AND FAR E. WITH GOING CONVECTION IN WRN NEB...OPTED TO PUT IN CHC POPS OVER THE FAR WRN CWFA BETWEEN 11Z AND 14Z...WITH SLGT CHC POPS ACROSS OUR N WHERE THE CAP HAS THE LEAST AFFECT AND ALONG THE DEPARTING WMFNT. THIS AFTN...STRONG UPPER TROF AND ASSOCIATED CDFNT WL MOV EWD ACROSS THIS AREA. THE MAIN STORY HERE HAS BEEN A SLOWER MOVEMENT WITH THE SFC FNT. STRONG JET STREAK FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR AT THE BASE OF THE UPPER TROF WITH 40 TO 45 KT WINDS AT 6 KM PROGGED IN OUR WRN CWFA...AND 50 TO 60 KTS IN OUR ERN HALF...BOTH PER THE NAM. NOT SURE IF I TRUST THESE SPPEDS ATTM...BUT IT IS A STRONG UPPER TROF. IF THESE WINDS DO PAN OUT...DEFINITE SVR CHCS WL BE IN THE OFFING OVR THE ERN CWFA THIS AFTN...LINGERING IN THE FAR E EARLY THIS EVENING WITH DEEP LYR DIR SHEAR AND STRONG INSTABILITY. WAVE QUICKLY EXITS AFTER EVENING TONIGHT. NW FLOW BOTH ALOFT AND AT THE SFC TAKES OVER ON THU WITH BREEZY CONDS AND WL MIXED AIR. NAM CONTS TO SHOW HIGH LVLS OF H85 RH ON THU OVER MUCH OF OUR N AND ERN PTNS OF THE FA ASSOCIATED WITH CAA STRATOCU. NEXT WX FEATURE TO LOOK AT IS LATE FRI NIGHT...WITH RETURN FLOW BEGINNING ALONG WITH STRONG H85 WAA THRU THE WRN HALF OF THE FA. H7-H5 LAPSE RATES ARE BEGINNING TO STEEPEN UP SOMEWHAT...SO KEPT CHCS OF TS GOING THRU THE WRN HALF OF THE FA AFTER MIDNIGHT. HAVE NOT LOOKED CLOSELY AT TEMPS YET...BUT QUICK GLANCE AT THE H85 TEMPS EARLIER ON THE MODELS WL GIVE NO MAJOR CHANGES TO GOING FCST. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. MN...NONE. IA...NONE. NE...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 3:10 AM CST, 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 410 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2005 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-301200- 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- 410 AM CDT WED JUN 29 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 SMALL RISK OF A SEVERE STORM EARLY THIS MORNING... PRIMARILY IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA WHERE THE MAIN THREAT IS DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THIS AFTERNOON...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THIS AREA. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ALONG AND EAST OF A LINCOLN COUNTY MINNESOTA...TO IDA COUNTY IOWA LINE FROM ABOUT 4 PM TO 7 PM. IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WINDS TO 75 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM ABOUT 2 PM TO 5 PM JUST WEST OF THE MODERATE RISK AREA...INCLUDING THE I 29 CORRIDOR AND THE YANKTON VICINITY. IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA...HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND 60 MPH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER 2 PM LASTING TO ABOUT 7 PM EARLY THIS EVENING. && 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), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:35 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
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 29, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Dakota, June 29 to 30, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 29 to 30, 2005
- Heat in Louisiana, June 29, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 29, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 29, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 29, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 29, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 29, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 29 to 30, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, June 29, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 29, 2005
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, 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: 5458377.