Hail in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sunday, July 14, 2024
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sunday, July 14, 2024, between 12:09 am and 1:10 am CDT, in 4 of the metro's 9 counties. The largest was 3.50 inches at 3 ESE Monticello (Wright County) at 12:10 am. NOAA radar flagged 323 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 132 rated a 100% chance of hail and 109 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Hennepin, Sherburne, Washington and Wright counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Monticello 3 reports, up to 3.50 in
- Oakdale 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Big Lake 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Hanover 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Minneapolis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:09 am | 1.00 | Oakdale | Washington | relayed via metro skywarn. (MPX) |
| 12:10 am | 3.50 | 3 ESE Monticello | Wright | Sent with a picture showing the hail by a measuring tape. (MPX) |
| 12:10 am | 2.00 | 2 ESE Monticello | Wright | (MPX) |
| 12:15 am | 1.75 | 2 S Oakdale | Washington | Hail started around 11:50pm... progressively got bigger to golf ball size hail. (MPX) |
| 12:15 am | 1.75 | Big Lake | Sherburne | (MPX) |
| 12:29 am | 3.00 | 2 NNE Monticello | Sherburne | Phoned in report. (MPX) |
| 12:42 am | 2.00 | 3 ESE Hanover | Hennepin | Delayed Report: Photo with a few large hail stones between 2.0 and 2.25 inches in diameter on a measuring tape. Time estimated via radar. (MPX) |
| 1:10 am | 1.00 | 2 WNW Minneapolis | Hennepin | Relayed via metro skywarn. (MPX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
323 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; 132 were rated 100% and 17 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 | 162 | 29 | 34 | 6 | 2.50 in | 12:00 am | 1:45 am |
| KDLH | 61 | 43 | 30 | 6 | 2.50 in | 12:04 am | 1:37 am |
| KMPX | 58 | 36 | 32 | 5 | 2.75 in | 12:04 am | 1:39 am |
| KARX | 42 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:04 am | 1:43 am |
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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Minneapolis-St. Paul when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 9 counties (Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka, Dakota, Washington, Scott, Carver, Wright and Sherburne counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.