Hail — Cedar, Iowa

2024-02-08 · near Lowden, Cedar, Iowa

Event narrative

Small hail covered the ground, with a few flat disks of hail around the size of dimes.

Wider weather episode

Several thunderstorms developed across much of eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois on the afternoon and early evening of February 8, 2024. Many of these storms had pea to dime size hail. The strongest storms occurred in Jackson County, IA and Jo Daviess, Stephenson, and Putnam counties in IL. Quarter to ping pong ball size fell with the storms in Jackson, Jo Daviess, and Stephenson counties, with the larger hailstones reported near Freeport, IL. A brief tornado developed just south of the Quad Cities County Warning Area in Marshall county and moved into Putnam county. A stronger tornado developed in Wisconsin.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1152912. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.