Hail, Bayfield
- When
- June 6, 2:47 PM CST
- Where
- Bayfield County, 0.84 mi SE of Iron River
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 46.560, -91.410
Pea to dime size hail accumulated enough to cover the ground.
Hail in Wisconsin, June 6, 2012
High pressure over the central Great Lakes and a stationary front over the Dakotas brought warm humid air northward into northwest Wisconsin on June 6th. A few afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced hail.
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 happened
The episode as NWS DLH wrote it up.
High pressure over the central Great Lakes and a stationary front over the Dakotas brought warm humid air northward into northwest Wisconsin on June 6th. A few afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced 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 Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 2:30 PM CST, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:30 PM CST, 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 330 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT AN ELONGATED VORT MAX IN THE NW FLOW WILL REMAIN POSITIONED OVER THE WRN LAKE SUPERIOR REGION OVERNIGHT...GRADUALLY BECOMING REPLACED BY H50 RIDING ADVANCING FROM THE DAKOTAS ON THURSDAY. SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHRA/TSTMS WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT...AS WELL AS THURSDAY... DUE TO ELEVATED DEW POINTS IN THE 50S/PWATS AROUND AN INCH...COMBINED WITH H85 WAA AND MID LEVEL OMEGA. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. A VERY ISOLATED STORM MAY CONTAIN SEVERE SIZED HAIL THIS EVENING...MAINLY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS AREA...SOUTH THROUGH THE MILLE LACS LAKE AREA IN THE CORRIDOR OF 60KT 0-6 KM WIND SHEAR AND MAXIMIZED MUCAPE. THE POSSIBILITY FOR A FEW SEVERE STORMS REMAINS SMALL...BUT INCREASES THURSDAY AFTRN OVER THE MN ZONES AS NAM BUFR SOUNDINGS AT KBRD/KINL/KHIB SUGGEST CAPE VALUES INCREASE TO THE 200/250 KJ/KG WITH LI VALUES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEGATIVE 5. THE CHANCE FOR MORE WIDESPREAD RAIN...WITH HEAVIER AMOUNTS AROUND A HALF INCH...WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY NIGHT FOR THE WESTERN ZONES AS A CLOSED H85 LOW LIFTS OVER THE WRN DAKOTAS AND SRN MANITOBA. HAVE INCREASED MINIMUM TEMPS THURSDAY NIGHT DUE TO SRLY WINDS REMAINING 5-10 KT AND INCREASING H85 TEMPS THROUGH THE NIGHT. EXTENDED...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... ALL MDLS AGREE THAT SYNOPTIC SCALE WILL EVOLVE INTO A MAJOR AMPLIFICATION OF UPPER TROF OVER NRN ROCKIES. THIS ALLOWS DOWNSTREAM RIDGING OVER CWA DURING THE WEEKEND. INITIAL SHORTWAVE TROF/LOW LVL WAA PATTERN WILL CRUISE ACROSS THE CWA FRIDAY WITHIN INITIAL BUILDING STAGE OF MID LVL RIDGE. ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO AT LEAST POSE A POTENTIAL FOR A FEW STRONG STORMS. SFC BDRY WILL DISSIPATE ACROSS CWA SATURDAY ...BELOW AMPLIFYING MID LVL RIDGE. ALTHOUGH CURRENT FCST IS DRY...WILL NEED TO MONITOR FOR ISOLATED RW/TRW ALONG OLD BDR DURING DIURNAL HEATING SATURDAY AFTN. ATTENTION THEN FOCUSES WEST OF CWA SATURDAY EVENING/SUNDAY AS CYCLOGENESIS OCCURS OVER DAKOTAS UNDER EJECTING JET MAX ALONG ERN SIDE OF UPPER TROF. VERY SIGNIFICANT WARM ADVECTION EXPECTED WITH TEMPS/HUMIDITY ABOVE TYPICAL SEASONAL VALUES SUNDAY. LATEST WIND/MSTR PROFILES SUGGEST CONSIDERABLE MIXING OCCURS SUNDAY THROUGH LOWEST 5K FEET WITH RESULT BEING SOME LOWERING OF DEWPOINTS DURING THE AFTN HRS. MAX TEMPS 80S/90S SUNDAY EXCEPT NSHORE WHERE BDRY LYR FLOW OFF LAKE WILL KEEP COOLER CONDITIONS ESPECIALLY ALONG SHORE OF COOK COUNTY. BEST GUESSTIMATE OF TIMING OF FROPA WILL BE SUNDAY NIGHT WITH SHOWERS/STORMS MARCHING EAST AS KINEMATICS INCREASE FROM UPPER TROUGH MOVEMENT. CLEARING SHOULD BE RAPID MONDAY ACROSS MN ZONES...WHILE FRNTL PRECIP CONTINUES OVER ERN WIC ZONES. WILL MOST LIKELY NEED TO SPEED UP PRECIP MONDAY IF LATEST EC IS CLOSER TO TRUTH. SECONDARY FRONT ARRIVES LATE TUES/EARLY WED WITH POSSIBLE PRECIP/CLOUDS .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1236 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012/ AVIATION...18Z TAF ISSUANCE... RELATIVELY MOIST ATMOSPHERE TODAY WITH DAYTIME HEATING PROVIDING THE LIFT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SCT RW/TRW. SHOULD SEE A DIURNAL TREND TO THIS PATTERN AS WE HAVE SEEN PAST TWO DAYS. VFR CEILINGS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL. VISIBILITY SHOULD REMAIN VFR EXCEPT IN HEAVIER SHOWERS WHERE MVFR MAY OCCUR. CONFIDENCE LOW OVERNIGHT WITH FG/BR POTENTIAL SO HAVE KEPT MENTION BRIEF AND WITHIN MVFR CATEGORY. && .POINT TEMPS/POPS... DLH 52 74 59 77 / 20 20 50 50 INL 55 79 62 77 / 30 30 50 50 BRD 59 82 63 81 / 30 30 60 40 HYR 53 80 61 80 / 20 30 40 50 ASX 50 77 58 80 / 20 20 30 50 && .DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...NONE. WI...NONE. LS...NONE. && SHORT TERM...GRANING LONG TERM....CANNON
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 2:09 PM CST, 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 309 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-071100- KOOCHICHING-NORTHERN ST. LOUIS-NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE- NORTHERN ITASCA-CENTRAL ST. LOUIS-SOUTHERN LAKE/LAKESHORE- SOUTHERN COOK/LAKESHORE-NORTHERN CASS-SOUTHERN ITASCA- SOUTHERN CASS-CROW WING-NORTHERN AITKIN-SOUTHERN AITKIN- CARLTON/SOUTHERN ST. LOUIS-PINE-DOUGLAS-BAYFIELD-ASHLAND-IRON- BURNETT-WASHBURN-SAWYER-PRICE- 309 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS THE NORTHLAND THROUGH THE NIGHT. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST OVER MUCH OF THE REGION THURSDAY. A FEW STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME STRONG OR SEVERE IN THE AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER MINNESOTA. THERE REMAINS A THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY NIGHT. HEAT INDEX VALUES IN EXCESS OF 90 DEGREES ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY ACROSS THE NORTHLAND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ121-140>148-071100- BAYFIELD TO OAK POINT WI-GRAND PORTAGE TO GRAND MARAIS MN- GRAND MARAIS TO TACONITE HARBOR MN- TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN- SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN-TWO HARBORS TO DULUTH MN- DULUTH MN TO PORT WING WI-PORT WING TO SAND ISLAND WI- SAND ISLAND TO BAYFIELD WI-OAK POINT TO SAXON HARBOR WI- 309 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE OVER LAKE SUPERIOR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A BETTER CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY NIGHT. GRANING MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DULUTH (ALL LOWER CASE)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:56 PM CST, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 256 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 WIZ001-006-007-062030- BURNETT-DOUGLAS-WASHBURN- 256 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 AT 255 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MOOSE JUNCTION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SAINT CROIX FLOWAGE... GORDON... MINONG FLOWAGE... WASCOTT... MINONG... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4611 9160 4594 9200 4629 9225 4640 9195 STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:57 PM CST, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 257 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 MNZ010-018-062030- KOOCHICHING-NORTH ITASCA- 257 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 AT 257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALVWOOD...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ROSY... WIRT... DIXON LAKE... SAND LAKE... SQUAW LAKE... OSLUND... MAX... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4764 9375 4743 9432 4780 9439 4786 9414 STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:58 PM CST, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 258 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 MNZ038-WIZ006-062030- BURNETT-PINE- 258 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012 AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUXBURY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF MODERATE DOWNPOURS... LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DUXBURY... MARKVILLE... DANBURY... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 4599 9217 4582 9262 4622 9275 4629 9251 STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:01 PM CST, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
301 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
MNZ012-020-021-062030-
NORTHERN COOK/NORTHERN LAKE-SOUTHERN COOK/NORTH SHORE-SOUTHERN
LAKE/NORTH SHORE-
301 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITE PINE LAKE...NEARLY
STATIONARY MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEST CENTRAL COOK COUNTY...
EAST CENTRAL COUNTY...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 4779 9058 4756 9100 4786 9116 4796 9092
STEWARTSpecial weather statement, Jun 6, 2:12 PM CST, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
312 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
WIZ001-002-062030-
BAYFIELD-DOUGLAS-
312 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
...STRONG STORM BETWEEN BRULE AND IRON RIVER...
AT 307 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF BRULE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY.
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING UP TO PENNY SIZE HAIL...OCCASIONAL
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT BRULE AND IRON RIVER THROUGH 345 PM...
STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK SHELTER
INDOORS UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 4636 9128 4634 9142 4632 9164 4658 9164
4660 9138
GRANINGSpecial weather statement, Jun 6, 2:46 PM CST, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
346 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
MNZ038-WIZ001-002-006>008-062145-
BAYFIELD-BURNETT-DOUGLAS-PINE-SAWYER-WASHBURN-
346 PM CDT WED JUN 6 2012
...LINE OF STRONG STORMS AFFECTING NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND PINE
COUNTY MN...
AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
IRON RIVER TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRANTSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP
TO 30 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED THROUGH 5 PM INCLUDE...
SAINT CROIX FLOWAGE... MINONG FLOWAGE...
UPPER EAU CLAIRE LAKE... YELLOWLAKE...
WEBSTER... WEBB LAKE... WASCOTT...
GRANTSBURG... GORDON... DANBURY...
BRANSTAD... ALPHA... RIVERSIDE...
GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
LAT...LON 4567 9289 4573 9288 4573 9301 4614 9302
4671 9131 4613 9097 4572 9226 4572 9252
4565 9252 4564 9254 4564 9288
BERDESThe radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:45 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Colorado, June 6, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 6 to 7, 2012
- Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in Georgia, June 6 to 7, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 6, 2012
- Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 6, 2012
- Flash Flood and Hail in Colorado, June 6, 2012
- Coastal Flood in Georgia, June 6, 2012
- Flooding in Idaho, June 6, 2012
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 6, 2012
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 6, 2012
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wyoming, June 6 to 7, 2012
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds and Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, June 6, 2012
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, June 2012
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: 390187.