Hail — Guthrie, Iowa

2022-08-29 · near Stuart, Guthrie, Iowa

Event narrative

Report of quarter sized hail with no accompanying strong winds.

Wider weather episode

A surface boundary stretched across Iowa and into Nebraska in the early morning hours of August 29th with the mid level 850 mb boundary lagging behind and better associated with a ribbon of high instability with MUCAPE over 3000 J/kg. A storm developed along the boundary in western Iowa and persisted across much of southern Iowa through the morning, producing intermittent large hail.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1053262. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.