Hail, Saline
- When
- March 11, 2:17 AM CST
- Where
- Saline County, Harrisburg
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Unknown
- Coordinates
- 37.730, -88.550
Hail in Illinois, March 11, 2010
Low pressure was centered over northeast Kansas, with a cold front trailing south-southeast across the eastern Plains. Ahead of this front, a south-southeast low level jet up to 50 knots brought warmer and more moist air into the Mid Mississippi Valley.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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 PAH wrote it up.
Low pressure was centered over northeast Kansas, with a cold front trailing south-southeast across the eastern Plains. Ahead of this front, a south-southeast low level jet up to 50 knots brought warmer and more moist air into the Mid Mississippi Valley. The resulting environment was favorable for strong storms that produced some hail.
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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 11, 1:06 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 1:06 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 106 AM CST THU MAR 11 2010 .DISCUSSION... MOST MODELS HAVE PCPN OUT OF AREA BY 18Z AND STILL NICE DAY W/WARM SLYS PREVAILING THIS PM. LONG WAVE LOW REALLY DIGS/BARRELS ACROSS LOWER OH VALLEY TONIGHT-FRI...RETURNING HIGH POPS/THUNDER CHANCES (SWODY2 SEE TEXT). THE LOW SHIFTS EAST ACROSS THE TN VALLEY THIS WEEKEND...RESULTING IN SHOWERY SAT WEATHER W/A GENERAL TAPERING OF POPS WEST TO EAST ON SUNDAY AS THE LOW MOVES TO THE DELMARVA. IN GENERAL POPS WERE ONLY TWEEKED IN THE NEAR TERM/THRU DAY 4 WITH MINIMAL MASSAGE ON DAY 5 AND BEYOND. WARM TEMPS NEAR TERM WILL COOL ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE LOW FOR THIS WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... SHRA AND TSTMS MOVG ACROSS THE WRN TAF SITES...WILL TRANSLATE TO ERN SITES BY 12Z. MVFR CIGS AND VSBYS EXPECTED WITH PRECIP...AND GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER 12Z...RETURNING TO VFR. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 10, 12:11 PM CST, 14 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1211 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-111100- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 1211 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...WESTERN KENTUCKY...FROM THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES AREA WEST...AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WILL START ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FROM MID TO LATE EVENING...CONTINUING UP THROUGH MIDNIGHT...WITH THE BEST CHANCE EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMING AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE AREA WITH THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY FOR SEVERE STORMS IS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. STORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...ESPECIALLY THE OZARKS REGION WILL BE CAPABLE OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL. SHOULD SUPERCELL STORMS DEVELOP...THEY MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AS WELL. THE SUPERCELL ASPECT WILL LARGELY DEPEND UPON THE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE RETURN AND INSTABILITY AHEAD OF THE EXPECTED CONVECTION. OTHERWISE THE MODE IS FORECAST TO TEND TOWARD A POTENTIAL SQUALL LINE. THE CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WILL DECREASE ONLY SLIGHTLY EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI OVERNIGHT. HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE...ALTHOUGH THE CONVECTION IS FORECAST TO BE MOVING OFF THE INSTABILITY AXIS AND SLIGHTLY AWAY FROM THE STRONGEST WIND FIELDS. STORM MOTION SHOULD BE NORTH / NORTHEAST 50 MPH. SHOULD THE ACTIVITY DEVELOP MORE INTO A SQUALL LINE...THE MOTION WILL TEND MORE TOWARD THE EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER THURSDAY. ISOLATED STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY FROM THE WABASH RIVER VALLEY REGION EAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY. ALSO... THERE HAS BEEN SOME DISCUSSION FROM THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER ABOUT UPGRADING A PORTION OF THE SLIGHT RISK AREA TO A MODERATE RISK...SHOULD CONDITIONS WARRANT. AT THIS TIME...WE ARE NOT PLANNING ON AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL...EVEN IF A MODERATE RISK COMES OUT. NOLES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 8:39 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 839 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010 MOZ108-109-110345- RIPLEY-BUTLER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DONIPHAN...POPLAR BLUFF 839 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010 ...STRONG STORM MOVING INTO RIPLEY AND BUTLER COUNTIES... A STRONG STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST RIPLEY AND SOUTHWEST BUTLER COUNTIES...REACHING AREAS AROUND OXLY...NAYLOR AND NEELYVILLE AROUND 9 PM. THOUGH THE STORM SEEMS TO BE SLOWLY WEAKENING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS PASSAGE. ALSO...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO LIKELY. RST
Local storm report, Mar 10, 9:35 PM CST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
935 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0929 PM HAIL 5 NW LONE HILL 36.75N 90.60W
03/10/2010 E0.75 INCH BUTLER MO TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME TO PENNY SIZE HAIL IN STRINGTOWN
&&
RSTThe radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:16 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hamilton
- When
- March 11, 2:37 AM CST
- Where
- Hamilton County, Mc Leansboro
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Unknown
- Coordinates
- 38.100, -88.530
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, March 11 to 12, 2010
- Flooding in Nebraska, March 11 to 31, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 11 to 12, 2010
- Strong Wind in Illinois, March 11, 2010
- Strong Wind in Louisiana, March 11, 2010
- Flooding in South Dakota, March 11 to 31, 2010
- Flood and Hail in Florida, March 11 to 12, 2010
- Flooding in Iowa, March 11 to 31, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, March 11, 2010
- Flood and Hail in Illinois, March 11, 2010
- Hail in Florida, March 11, 2010
- Flooding in Minnesota, March 11 to 16, 2010
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, March 2010
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: 215152, 215153.