Hail, Palm Beach
- When
- April 8, 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Palm Beach County, Loxahatchee
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 26.683, -80.350
Hail in Florida, April 8, 2000
Dime-size hail was reported by a SKYWARN spotter.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
Dime-size hail was reported by a SKYWARN spotter.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 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
- Avalanche in Alaska, April 8, 2000
- High Wind in Alabama, April 8, 2000
- Avalanche in Alaska, April 8 to 9, 2000
- Strong Wind in Georgia, April 8, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 8, 2000
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, April 8, 2000
- High Wind in New York, April 8, 2000
- Damaging Winds and Strong Wind in Virginia, April 8 to 9, 2000
- High Wind in North Carolina, April 8, 2000
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Pennsylvania, April 8 to 9, 2000
- High Wind in New Jersey, April 8, 2000
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Massachusetts, April 8, 2000
More
Every storm in Florida in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, April 2000
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: 5137873.