Hail, Franklin
- When
- August 5, 5:50 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, Dry Run
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.170, -77.750
Hail in Pennsylvania, August 5, 1997
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:49 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in California, August 5 to 7, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 5, 1997
- Wildfire in California, August 5 to 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 5, 1997
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, August 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 5 to 16, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 5, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 5, 1997
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5613477.