Hail, Pinal
- When
- August 29, 9:00 PM MST to 9:13 PM MST
- Where
- Pinal County, Coolidge
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 32.967, -111.517
Hail in Arizona, August 29, 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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 3:15 PM MST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 3:15 PM MST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-300545- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 315 PM MST WED AUG 29 2001 .SYNOPSIS... WEAK UPPER LEVEL IMPULSES WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. HOWEVER...MOISTURE LEVELS WILL GENERALLY REMAIN INADEQUATE TO GIVE RISE TO DAILY THUNDERSTORMS...EXCEPT FOR ACROSS THE SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA HIGHER TERRAIN THROUGH THURSDAY...AND AGAIN OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL GRADUALLY BUILD BACK OVER THE REGION NEXT WEEK...KEEPING MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA DRY AND SEASONABLY WARM. .DISCUSSION... SATELLITE PIX AND RADAR LOOPS WOULD SEEM TO INDICATE THAT THE CIN PRESENT IN THIS MORNINGS SOUNDINGS WAS PREVENTING ANY CAPE FROM BEING REALIZED. CU CLOUDS IN AND AROUND GTR PHX AREA ARE ABOUT AS FLAT AS CAN BE. MEANWHILE...SURGE FROM THIS MORNING HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT...ALTHOUGH SLY FLOW STILL EVIDENT ON KYUX VWP UP TO 5K. SFC DEWPOINTS HAVE TAPERED OFF INVOF THE CO RIVER...WITH YUM MCAS DOWN TO 63F FROM VALUES IN THE 70S EARLIER TODAY. STILL EXPECTING SOME DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK 250MB JET TO MOVE CLOSE TO THE AREA TONIGHT...BUT PROBABLY NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO INITIATE ANY NOCTURNAL CONVECTION IN PHX CWFA...MAYBE FURTHER N. THEREFORE...WILL LET ISOLATED TSTM CHANCES DIE OUT WITH THE SUNSET IN ZONE 24. 12Z MODELS DOWNRAMPED THE MOISTURE SOMEWHAT...ESPECIALLY AT 500MB LEVEL ...ON THURSDAY AND INTO FRIDAY. WILL KEEP A LINGERING SLIGHT CHANCE GOING IN ZONE 24 THU AFTERNOON/EVENING...DRY ELSEWHERE. AS MENTIONED ABOVE...TEMPS HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING ALL DAY TO RISE TO NEAR CONVECTIVE INITIATION VALUES...WITH DESERTS ONLY REACHING THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 105...DOWN 5 TO 8 DEGREES FROM YESTERDAY. MODEL SOUNDINGS DO NOT GIVE MUCH MORE COOLING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...SO WILL GO WITH BASICALLY A PERSISTENCE TEMPERATURE FORECAST. THE EXTENDED MODELS KEEP THE FLOW PATTERNS PRETTY WISHY-WASHY...WITH NOTHING STRONG ENOUGH TO SCOUR OUT WHAT MOISTURE WE HAVE IN PLACE. SO WILL LEAVE DAILY CHANCES FOR STORMS IN ZONE 24...NOWHERE ELSE. CAVEAT TO THIS WOULD BE ANY MOISTURE INPUT FROM HURRICANE FLOSSIE. IF THAT HAPPENS AND WE GET ANOTHER SURGE OR TWO OF MOISTURE...WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER EXPANDING TSTM THREATS FURTHER WEST IN THE CWFA OVER THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. WILL TAKE A WAIT-AND-SEE APPROACH NEXT FEW DAYS AND SEE WHAT FLOSSIE HAS TO SAY ABOUT ALL THIS. ESTLE
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:01 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
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- Hail in South Dakota, August 29, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, August 29, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 29, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 29 to 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 29, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 29, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 29, 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: 5264213.