Hail in Schoolcraft County, Michigan

Hail July 28, 2006 · Schoolcraft County, Michigan

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Hail diameter

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

Quarter-sized hail reported.

The wider storm

An approaching cold front interacting with an extremely unstable airmass triggered a widespread outbreak of severe weather across west and central Upper Michigan from late afternoon on the 28th to just after sunrise on the 29th. Of the 13 counties in west and central Upper Michigan, only Alger and Keweenaw counties escaped without severe weather, as there were at least 40 individual reports of damaging wind or large hail during the event. The storms also produced torrential downpours and minor flooding over Gogebic County during the early morning hours of the 29th.

Began near Thompson (45.8167, -86.4500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5519575. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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