Most severe-weather days smear across half a dozen states. June 19th did the opposite — it parked. Of 83 reports nationwide, 55 came out of a single state, and 54 of those were hail. Minnesota spent the afternoon stuck under the same train of storms.
What makes this one matter isn't the count — it's the address. The biggest stone, 2.25 inches, came down near St. Paul, right over the Twin Cities metro. That's not a cornfield catching a hit nobody sees; that's tens of thousands of roofs in one pass. Hail that big punches past cosmetic — it splits shingle seams and dents soft metal like gutters, vents, and AC fins — so even a glancing core leaves enough behind to file on.
Next door, Wisconsin caught the spillover: seven hail reports, up to 1.75 inches near Osseo. Out west it was a different animal — Nevada ran a wind day, an 86 mph blast near Gerlach out front, with odds and ends of hail and wind scattered through Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas. One tornado touched down near Laporte in northern Minnesota, and that was the day's whole tornado story.
If you live anywhere inside the Twin Cities ring, this one's worth ten minutes. Don't wait for a ceiling stain to tell you — pull up the table below, find your suburb, and if a 2-inch report sits near your zip, get someone who'll actually walk the slopes. The clock on a hail claim is shorter than most people guess, and a dated photo today beats a he-said argument with an adjuster next spring.
For contractors, the map drew the canvassing route for you: the Twin Cities, the St. Paul side especially, plus that Osseo pocket over the Wisconsin line. Minnesota just punched its ticket onto the Top States for Hail board. Full state-by-state counts are in the table below.