Iowa, 2024

Hail in Iowa, July 10, 2024

July 10, 2024 · NWS OAX · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

At 12 UTC on the 10th, a trough was positioned over the upper Midwest, with northwesterly flow over the Great Plains. At the surface, a surface trough extended from north-central Kansas into southeastern Iowa.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 happened

The episode as NWS OAX wrote it up.

At 12 UTC on the 10th, a trough was positioned over the upper Midwest, with northwesterly flow over the Great Plains. At the surface, a surface trough extended from north-central Kansas into southeastern Iowa. In the afternoon hours, scattered thunderstorms developed across far southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa. While most of these storms remained below severe limits, a handful of severe hail reports were received by the Omaha National Weather Service.

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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 12:28 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 12:28 PM CST, 54 minutes before
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The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:19 UTC.

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Montgomery

When
July 10, 1:22 PM CST
Where
Montgomery County, Grant
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
41.150, -95.000

Emergency management reported quarter sized hail.

Hail, Montgomery

When
July 10, 2:42 PM CST
Where
Montgomery County, Coburg
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
40.920, -95.280

Emergency management reported quarter sized hail.

Hail, Fremont

When
July 10, 4:21 PM CST
Where
Fremont County, 5 mi N of Sidney
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
40.822, -95.650

Emergency management reported lots of hail the size of dimes and nickels with a few quarter sized hail stones mixed in. Time slightly adjusted to account for a delay in the report from when the hail actually fell.

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

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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: 1206683, 1206684, 1206685.