Hail, Randolph
- When
- May 1, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County, Ruma
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.133, -90.000
Hail in Illinois, May 1, 2006
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.
- 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
- 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 St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 1, 9:01 PM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 9:01 PM CST, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1001 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2006 .DISCUSSION... HV CLEARED A SMALL PART OF TORNADO WATCH #271...BASICALLY THE COUNTIES JUST NW OF THE METRO AREA...BUT DUE TO NEW STORMS FORMING OVR OZARKS HV OPTED TO HANG ONTO WATCH ALG-S OF I-70. WORKING ON NEW ZONES THAT REFLECT ABV THINKING. TRUETT && .AVIATION... FOR THE 00Z TAFS...LGT SHRA MOVG INTO UIN AND COU AREAS AHD OF SHRTWV TROF EXTDG FM NWRN MO SW THRU SERN KS. WK SFC TROF ALSO EXTDS FM BTWN COU AND STL SW THRU NERN OK. PLENTY OF LOW LVL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY FM STL SWD AHD OF THIS SFC TROF. SHOULD BE SOME SHRA IN UIN AND COU THIS EVNG WITH TSRA IN THE STL AREA. PLENTY OF MID LVL CLOUD CVR AHD OF THE SHRTWV TROF WITH SCT-BKN CUMULUS ABV 3000FT. MAY HAVE BRIEF MVFR VSBYS IN UIN AND COU WITHIN SHRA ACTIVITY...AND A BRIEF PERIOD OF MVFR OR EVEN IFR CIGS AND VSBYS IN TSRA IN STL AND SUS. THIS PCPN SHOULD PUSH SE OF THE STL AREA BY 06Z TUE FOLLOWED BY A CLRG SKY AND SFC WNDS BCMG W-NWLY BHND SFC TROF. GKS && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 2:36 PM CST, 7 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 336 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2006 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-021200- ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOND IL-BOONE-BROWN IL-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY- CLINTON IL-COLE-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE IL-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL- IRON-JEFFERSON-JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MACOUPIN IL-MADISON- MADISON IL-MARION-MARION IL-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONROE IL-MONTGOMERY- MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE-PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS- SHELBY-ST. CHARLES-ST. CLAIR IL-ST. FRANCOIS-ST. LOUIS- ST. LOUIS CITY-STE. GENEVIEVE-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL- 336 PM CDT MON MAY 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AREAWIDE THIS EVENING AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE INTERSECTS A SURFACE TROUGH WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OUT AHEAD OF IT. THE BEST CHANCE APPEARS TO BE THE AREA SOUTH AND EAST OF ST LOUIS...OR IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND IN THE EASTERN OZARKS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AND A SLOW MOVING FRONT WILL PROVIDE FOR THE ADDITIONAL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL PROBABLY NEEDED THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. TES
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 1, 8:44 PM CST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
944 PM CDT MON MAY 01 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0930 PM TSTM WND DMG EDWARDSVILLE 38.80N 89.96W
05/01/2006 MADISON IL LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWNED BY HIGH WINDS. TREES AND LIMBS
BLOCKING SEVERAL STREETS.
&&
TRUETTLocal storm report, May 1, 9:31 PM CST, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1031 PM CDT MON MAY 01 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1010 PM HAIL FESTUS 38.22N 90.41W
05/01/2006 E1.75 INCH JEFFERSON MO PUBLIC
AT INTERSECTION OF I-55 AND HWY 61
&&
TRUETTThe radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:41 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Randolph
- When
- May 1, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County, Baldwin
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.183, -89.850
Hail, Randolph
- When
- May 1, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Randolph County, 4 mi W of Sparta
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 38.117, -89.767
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 Winds in Texas, May 1 to 8, 2006
- Drought in Oklahoma, May 1 to 31, 2006
- Wildfire in Michigan, May 1, 2006
- Flood in Nevada, May 1 to 31, 2006
- Drought in Oklahoma, May 1 to 10, 2006
- Drought in Colorado, May 1 to 31, 2006
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 1 to 2, 2006
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 2006
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 2006
- Drought in Texas, May 1 to 31, 2006
- Drought in Arkansas, May 1 to 10, 2006
- Drought in Utah, May 1 to 31, 2006
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, May 2006
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: 5510229, 5510230, 5510231.