Hail in Union County, Iowa

Hail April 30, 2024 · Union County, Iowa

1.25 in

Hail diameter

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Report via mping.

The wider storm

An embedded shortwave passed across Iowa in the afternoon, providing a focus for convection as it phased with an increasing southerly moisture stream. Steep lapse rates, plenty of instability, and hodographs supporting rotating updrafts all came together to create an environment supportive of hail producing supercells. Storms remained somewhat discrete and produced swaths of hail across central and southern Iowa. The largest hail reported was up to baseball sized in Appanoose County. A tornado also occurred in Wayne County east of Millerton with the storms.

Began near Lorimor (41.1000, -94.0500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170949. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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