Hail in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Monday, April 5, 2021
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Monday, April 5, 2021, between 8:00 pm and 11:30 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Maple Lake (Wright County) at 8:11 pm. NOAA radar flagged 437 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 134 rated a 100% chance of hail and 46 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Hennepin and Wright counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Hanover 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Maple Lake 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Buffalo 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Corcoran 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Monticello 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Rockford 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Winsted 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 pm | 1.50 | 3 WSW Maple Lake | Wright | TWEET WITH PHOTO FROM OFF DUTY NWS METEOROLOGIST. (MPX) |
| 8:11 pm | 1.75 | Maple Lake | Wright | TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS GOLF BALL HAIL CTY 5 AND CTY 37 IN MAPLE LAKE AT 2011 UTC. (MPX) |
| 10:14 pm | 1.00 | 4 WNW Winsted | Wright | PHONED IN REPORT. (MPX) |
| 11:01 pm | 1.00 | Rockford | Wright | (MPX) |
| 11:19 pm | 1.00 | 3 WSW Hanover | Wright | (MPX) |
| 11:19 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Hanover | Wright | (MPX) |
| 11:23 pm | 1.25 | 4 ESE Buffalo | Wright | PHONED IN REPORT. (MPX) |
| 11:25 pm | 1.00 | Corcoran | Hennepin | (MPX) |
| 11:30 pm | 1.00 | Monticello | Wright | 1 HAIL COVERING THE GROUND. (MPX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
437 signatures from 4 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 134 were rated 100% and 2 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMSP | 197 | 59 | 13 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:48 pm | 11:59 pm |
| KMPX | 113 | 39 | 22 | 2 | 2.00 in | 7:30 pm | 11:53 pm |
| KDLH | 70 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 1.50 in | 7:45 pm | 11:54 pm |
| KARX | 57 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 9:04 pm | 11:57 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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