Hail in California, February 27, 2000

Name: Hail in California, February 27, 2000
Start: 2000-02-27T16:00
End: 2000-02-27T16:05
Location: California

February 27, 2000 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: $50,000
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 San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:06 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Fresno

When: February 27, 4:00 PM PST to 4:05 PM PST
Where: Fresno County, 7 mi W of Sanger
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Crop damage: $50,000
Reported by: GOVT OFFICIAL
Coordinates: 36.700, -119.700

Larger hail damaged strawberry fields west of Sanger. Actual size not reported but presence of damage indicates larger hail present. One other Severe Thunderstorm warning was issued late in the afternoon (at 1610 PST) that was based on a meso-cyclone radar signature in the vicinity of Kingsburg. However, no verification occurred from this storm that was warned for both Fresno and Tulare County.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5135445.