Hail in Goodhue County, Minnesota

Hailstone was measured and emailed to the weather service. The hail stone was 3 inches in diameter and fell east of Stanton.

During the late afternoon, and early evening of Thursday, June 17th, thunderstorms began to develop along an outflow boundary from earlier convection across far southern Minnesota. The storms developed in an area of ample instability and wind shear of 40 to 50 knots across southern Minnesota, and into west-central Wisconsin. The first storm developed across northwest Le Sueur County and moved east-northeast across southern Scott, and northern le Sueur County. The city of Lonsdale received hail that measured up to 2.5 inches in diameter. Other hail between an inch, and up to 2 inches in diameter fell along the Scott/Le Sueur County border, eastward toward northern Rice and southern Dakota Counties, and into Goodhue County. Some of the storms deviated well southeast across Goodhue County and produced the largest hailstones of 3 inches in diameter near Cannon Falls. Eventually, other storms developed across southern Minnesota, and moved eastward into west central Wisconsin.

There was an estimated 150 houses that were exposed to the 2 hail or greater. An estimate of 1,000 houses were exposed to 1.5 hail or greater. Based on total and partial roof replacement, the total damages to this hailstorm was approximately 5.5 million dollars.