Hail, Coconino
- When
- August 19, 2:30 PM MST
- Where
- Coconino County, Happy Jack
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.750, -111.400
A spotter reported one inch diameter hail 10 miles north of Blue Ridge Reservoir.
Hail in Arizona, August 19, 2001
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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 2:30 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:30 PM MST, 0 minutes before
NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 230 PM MST SUN AUG 19 2001 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE CURRENTLY OVER NORTHEAST ARIZONA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD TONIGHT. AS A RESULT...SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING AN INCREASE IN MONSOONAL MOISTURE TO THE STATE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW WILL RESULT IN AN UPSWING IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND COOLER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES TOMORROW. A WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING DRIER AND WARMER WEATHER TO THE STATE BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .DISCUSSION...CONVECTION OFF TO A LATE START TODAY WITH COVERAGE JUST BECOMING SCATTERED ATTM. A COUPLE OF SYNOPTIC FEATURES INDICATE AN UPSWING IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. HIGH PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST AZ TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD TONIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERIC FLOW BECOMING MORE SOUTHERLY WITH TIME AND AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE TRANSPORT ACROSS AZ. THE OTHER FEATURE OF INTEREST IS A WEAK DISTURBANCE EMBEDDED IN THE FLOW ALONG THE AZ/MEXICO BORDER. MESOETA HAS BEST HANDLE ON THIS FEATURE AND MOVES IT NORTHWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AZ TONIGHT AND INTO NORTHERN AZ EARLY TOMORROW. FLOW BECOMES WESTERLY LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY AS A TROF OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE WEST COAST AND BEGINS TO ADVECT DRIER AIR INTO THE STATE. ETA/AVN SHOWS AN ATTENDANT 50 KT JET WITH THIS TROF WHICH CLIPS THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE ON TUESDAY. THIS FEATURE BEARS WATCHING AS ENERGETICS INTERACT WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND SHEAR PROFILE BECOMES FAVORABLE FOR POSSIBLE SVR WX DAY ON TUESDAY. ETA/AVN THEN SWEEP THE MOISTURE OUT OF ALL BUT FAR EASTERN AZ ON WEDNESDAY. IN THE EXTENDED...DRY AIR REMAINS OVER THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. PER CONSENSUS WITH NEARBY OFFICES DURING COORDINATION CALL...WILL KEEP CHANCE SHOWERS ALONG THE EASTERN AZ/NM BORDER ZONES ON WEDNESDAY...THEN DRY CONDITIONS/MOSTLY CLEAR FORECAST THROUGH SUNDAY. TW .FGZ...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 8:45 AM MST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
AZZ004>018-037>040-191930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 845 AM MST SUN AUG 19 2001 ...MONSOON MOISTURE RETURNS TO NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY... HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE TO THE EAST AND ALLOW A MOIST SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW TO DEVELOP OVER ARIZONA TODAY. MONSOONAL MOISTURE CURRENTLY LOCATED ALONG THE ARIZONA-MEXICO BORDER WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTHWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS TO DEVELOP OVER AND SOUTH OF THE MOGOLLON RIM THIS AFTERNOON...BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD THIS EVENING AND SPREADING NORTHWARD TO THE UTAH BORDER. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Wildfire in California, August 19 to 29, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, August 19, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 19, 2001
- Wildfire in Montana, August 19, 2001
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, August 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 19, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 19, 2001
- High Wind in Florida, August 19, 2001
More
Every storm in Arizona in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, August 2001
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: 5266968.