Hail, Benton
- When
- June 3, 10:35 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County, 1 mi N of Van Horne
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.033, -92.083
Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 3, 2006
A likely upper level disturbance initiated scattered thunderstorms in a semi-dry to semi-moist atmosphere across eastern Iowa. Two storms pulsed severe and produced one report each of large hail and a downburst.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- Events
- 2
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 likely upper level disturbance initiated scattered thunderstorms in a semi-dry to semi-moist atmosphere across eastern Iowa. Two storms pulsed severe and produced one report each of large hail and a downburst.
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 3, 7:53 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 7:53 PM CST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 853 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2006 .UPDATE... A QUICK UPDATE TO REFINE THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TONIGHT. A NICE AREA OF CONVERGENCE...SURFACE DEWPOINT POOLING... VERY WEAK PRESSURE FALLS HAVE SET UP ALONG A FRONT EXTENDING FROM SOME CONVECTION OVER NORTH CENTRAL IOWA TO THE SOUTHEAST...TO APPROXIMATELY MEMPHIS MISSOURI. EXPECT THAT OVERNIGHT CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP ALONG THIS BOUNDARY AS THE LOW LEVEL JET SETS UP... MOST LIKELY MOVING SOUTHEAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY FROM THE CURRENT CONVECTION. THUS...HAVE INCREASED POPS TO LOW CHANCES RIGHT ALONG THAT BOUNDARY...BUT WITH A SHARP GRADIENT TO THE NORTHEAST WHERE DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN THE UPPER 40S VS LOW 60S SOUTHWEST OF THE BOUNDARY. && .DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. && LE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:38 AM CST, 17 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 538 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2006 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-041045- BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON- CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JEFFERSON- HENRY IA-DES MOINES-VAN BUREN-LEE-JO DAVIESS-STEPHENSON-CARROLL- WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON- WARREN-HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK- 538 AM CDT SAT JUN 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WIND SHIFT LINE FROM JUST SOUTH OF IOWA CITY TO THE QUAD CITIES TO NEAR PRINCETON ILLINOIS...WILL SAG SLOWLY SOUTH TODAY. THIS BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND FAR NORTHEAST MISSOURI MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WILLIAMSBURG...TO WAPELLO...TO MONMOUTH. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL FROM PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. ALSO...FUNNEL CLOUDS AND AN ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN CANNOT BE RULED OUT WITH ANY OF THE STRONGER UPDRAFTS THAT INTERACT WITH THIS WIND SHIFT LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:35 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Linn
- When
- June 3, 11:12 PM CST
- Where
- Linn County, Cedar Rapids
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 42.000, -91.650
Measured by RWIS
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 3, 2006
- Hail in Michigan, June 3, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 3, 2006
- Flood and Hail in Ohio, June 3 to 4, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Dakota, June 3 to 4, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 3, 2006
- Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 2006
- Hail in Illinois, June 3, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 3, 2006
- Hail in Missouri, June 3, 2006
- Hail in Michigan, June 3, 2006
- Hail in Illinois, June 3, 2006
More
Every storm in Iowa in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 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: 5518779, 5518780.