A cluster of thunderstorms that developed across southern Minnesota during the afternoon and evening of Monday, October 17th, produced a few large hail stones from the southern part of the Twin Cities metro area, eastward across Pierce County. The largest hail stone was nickel size.
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The episode as NWS MPX wrote it up.
A cluster of thunderstorms that developed across southern Minnesota during the afternoon and evening of Monday, October 17th, produced a few large hail stones from the southern part of the Twin Cities metro area, eastward across Pierce County. The largest hail stone was nickel size.
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 Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 17, 2:29 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1112 AM CDT MON OCT 17 2016 MNZ054-056-060-062>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028- 181300- LAC QUI PARLE-CHIPPEWA-HENNEPIN-RAMSEY-WASHINGTON-YELLOW MEDICINE- RENVILLE-MCLEOD-SIBLEY-CARVER-SCOTT-DAKOTA-REDWOOD-BROWN-NICOLLET- LE SUEUR-RICE-GOODHUE-WATONWAN-BLUE EARTH-WASECA-STEELE-MARTIN- FARIBAULT-FREEBORN-POLK-BARRON-RUSK-ST. CROIX-PIERCE-DUNN-PEPIN- EAU CLAIRE- 1112 AM CDT MON OCT 17 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. MNZ041>045-047>053-055-057>059-061-181300- DOUGLAS-TODD-MORRISON-MILLE LACS-KANABEC-STEVENS-POPE-STEARNS- BENTON-SHERBURNE-ISANTI-CHISAGO-SWIFT-KANDIYOHI-MEEKER-WRIGHT- ANOKA- 1112 AM CDT MON OCT 17 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA...EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
522 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2016
MNZ060-062-063-069-070-172300-
SCOTT-WASHINGTON-DAKOTA-HENNEPIN-RAMSEY-
522 PM CDT MON OCT 17 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN WASHINGTON...
SOUTHEASTERN HENNEPIN...NORTHEASTERN SCOTT...NORTHERN DAKOTA AND
SOUTHERN RAMSEY COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM CDT...
AT 522 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EDINA TO SAVAGE TO CREDIT RIVER. MOVEMENT
WAS EAST AT 50 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MINNEAPOLIS...ST. PAUL...BLOOMINGTON...EAGAN...WOODBURY...
EDEN PRAIRIE...BURNSVILLE...LAKEVILLE...APPLE VALLEY...EDINA...
MAPLEWOOD AND RICHFIELD.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 4474 9338 4489 9341 4510 9277 4506 9280
4503 9276 4497 9277 4491 9276 4490 9278
4482 9277 4477 9281 4474 9279 4468 9281
4466 9342
TIME...MOT...LOC 2222Z 257DEG 45KT 4487 9336 4476 9333 4468 9337
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</html>The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:02 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A swath of dime and nickel size hail fell across northern Pierce County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, October 2016
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 656482, 656483.