Hail, Columbia
- When
- July 9, 7:55 PM EST
- Where
- Columbia County, Lake City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.183, -82.633
Hail in Florida, July 9, 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 7:30 PM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 7:30 PM EST, 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 830 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2001 NOT MUCH COVERAGE OF STORMS THIS EVENING DUE TO NVA OVER AREA. ONE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER ECHOLS COUNTY GEORGIA AND NOW DRIFTING SOUTH INTO FL. OBSERVATIONS SHOW TEMPERATURES STILL IN THE UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S. HEAT INDICES STILL ABOVE 100 AT A FEW SPOTS. WILL CONTINUE WITH 30 POP TONIGHT DUE TO VERY MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND UPSTREAM SHORT WAVE OVER TN VLY WHICH MAY BRING CONVECTION INTO AREA LATE TONIGHT AND CONTINUE OVER AREA ON TUESDAY. MARINE...WINDS SW AROUND 10 KNOTS OVER WATERS NOW. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD WITH LITTLE CHANGES EXPECTED. .JAX... .FL...NONE. .GA...NONE. MZ
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 Washington, July 9 to 23, 2001
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Maine, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, July 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: 5257800.