Hail, Lee
- When
- June 16, 1:10 PM EST to 1:14 PM EST
- Where
- Lee County, Cape Coral
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 26.600, -81.967
Several Skywarn Spotters reported dime sized hail in Cape Coral.
Hail in Florida, June 16, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 12:30 PM EST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 12:30 PM EST, 40 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 130 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 CURRENT FCST PACKAGE IN GOOD SHAPE AS SYNOPTIC TRENDS REMAIN CONSISTENT. MEAN N TO NW FLOW WILL TURN NE...THEN E...IN THE LOWER LAYERS WITH TIME. THIS COMBINED WITH REMNANT UPPER LEVEL ENERGY SHOULD BOOST PCPN CHANCES FOR MORE FOLKS...MOST IMPORTANTLY TOWARD THE NORTH SUNCOAST WHERE SUBSTANTIAL RAIN HAS NOT FALLEN IN NEARLY 10 DAYS. MODELS ARE IN REMARKABLE AGREEMENT THROUGH THE SUNDAY...AS ALL NOW DEPICT EMBEDDED ENERGY IN THE FORM OF SHEAR AXES BOTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY. NGM PERHAPS A TAD DRY...BUT NO SIGNIFICANTLY SO. SHORT TERM: FIRST CELL DEVELOPED ALONG WCSB/TAMPA BAY BREEZE AND IS WEAKENING AS IT SLIDES SE. OTHERWISE...DRY AIR IS OVERTAKING THE LOWER LEVELS ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND N CWFA IN NW FLOW...AND EXPECT LITTLE DEVELOPMENT EARLY ON. HOWEVER...WE'RE WATCHING BLOSSOMING CONVECTION S OF TLH...AND BOUNDARIES FROM THAT MAY CAUSE SOME DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE NATURE COAST. FARTHER S...WILL HOLD ONTO SCT EARLY EVENING PCPN. FOR TONIGHT...W FLOW AHEAD OF SHEAR AXIS ON TRACK TO DEVELOP ISOLD TO PERHAPS SCT CONVECTION IN THE N AND CENTRAL WATERS...PERHAPS REACHING THE SHORELINE LATE. AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARY MAY HELP THE CAUSE...SO WILL ROLL ISOLD SHWRS/TSTMS AS CURR FCST. SUNDAY STILL LOOKS TO BE A BIT MORE ACTIVE AS SFC TROUGH SETS UP CAMP UNDERNEATH NNW FLOW ALOFT. SHEAR AXIS WILL ENHANCE VERTICAL MOTION...AND MODEL SOUNDINGS REMAIN QUITE UNSTABLE WITH MAX CAPE BETWEEN 3500 AND 4K. HIGHEST CHC WILL BE INLAND. POOLED MOISTURE COMBINED WITH A RETURN TO NE FLOW MON SHOULD KILL THE LATE NIGHT COASTAL PCPN AND RETURN AREA TO AFTN/EVE PROSPECTS. EXTENDED: NO CHANGES TO CURR FCST. MRF SHOWS YET ANOTHER DEEPENING TROUGH (FOR THE 2ND CONSECUTIVE RUN) MOVING INTO THE E U.S. BY LATE WEEK... AND POSSIBLE SW FLOW NEAR SFC MAY ALTER PCPN TIMING A BIT BY NEXT SAT. UNCERTAINTY LOOMS HOWEVER...SO SEE NO REASON TO GET CUTE. MARINE: LIGHT GRADIENT MEANS NO HIGHLIGHTS. FIRE WX: RH FALLING TO 40 OR JUST BELOW THIS AFTN...BUT SHOULD BE A BIT HIGHER SUN-MON AS DWPTS RETbURN TO MORE SEASONABLE LEVELS. NO HIGHLIGHTS. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA BB 077/092/074/091 1314 FMY BB 074/092/073/092 2424 .TBW...NONE. 88/GOLDSMITH
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
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, June 16 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 16 to 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, June 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, June 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: 5254782.