Florida, 2001

Hail in Florida, June 17, 2001

June 17, 2001 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 17, 12:10 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 12:10 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
110 PM EDT SUN JUN 17 2001

SOME RELIEF IS ON THE WAY TO COASTAL LOCATIONS WHO HAVEN'T RECEIVED
ANY MEASURABLE RAIN IN NEARLY TWO WEEKS.  PERSISTENT WESTERLY FLOW
PATTERN WHICH HAS DOMINATED SINCE EARLY JUNE WILL BREAK DOWN...AT
LEAST TEMPORARILY...EARLY THIS WEEK.  THOUGH DEEP TROPICAL EASTERLIES
ARE NOT EXPECTED...THE COMBINATION OF WEAK SE TO E FLOW...POOLED
MOISTURE ACROSS THE PENINSULA...AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES
WILL BRING RAIN CHC/COVERAGE TO OR JUST ABOVE CLIMO LEVELS.

NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN MODELS' BIG PICTURES TO THIS EFFECT.
HOWEVER...NUANCES...SUCH AS THE MESO ETA'S IMPLICATION OF A SOLID
LINE OF PCPN NEAR THE COAST WELL INTO THE NIGHT MON...MAY BE
OVERDONE.  NGM/AVN DEEP LAYERED FLOW BACKS TO THE ESE A BIT QUICKER
THAN THE ETA...AND WILL LEAN TOWARD THIS SOLN GIVEN POSITION OF
FEATURES FROM SFC THROUGH H50.

SHORT TERM:
CURRENTLY...ISOLD/SCT CONVECTION WILL SOON BE UNDERWAY.  WCSB PUSH
IS FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE N OF TAMPA BAY AS EXPECTED.  THE OTHER PLAYER
FOR THIS EVENING WILL BE CLOUD BOUNDARY AND EVENTUAL CONVECTION
SLIDING SW THROUGH N FL/GA BEHIND WIND SHIFT LINE.  FOR LEVY CO...
WILL PLAY IT SAFE WITH LOW CHC POP OVERNIGHT.  ELSW ALONG THE
SUNCOAST...ISOLD/SCT EVE INLAND PCPN.

ON MON...E/SE FLOW OVERTAKES THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE...BUT STILL HINTS
OF LIGHT W/SW FLOW ABOVE H80 UNTIL LATE IN THE DAY.  BY MON
EVENING...LIGHT S TO SE FLOW RISES HIGHER STILL...GRADUALLY
MOISTENING THE COLUMN.  RIGHT NOW...TUE LOOKS TO BE THE BEST DAY OF
THE TWO FOR AREAL COVERAGE.  HOWEVER...DUE TO UNCERTAINTY...PREFER
TO PLAY CLIMO POP VALUES WITH AN LATE AFTN/EVENING TIMING
PREFERENCE.

EXTENDED:
WED/THU LOOK TO BE MORE OF THE SAME THOUGH DEEP EASTERLIES TEND TO
BREAK DOWN AS H50 TROUGH APPROACHES THE E U.S.  STILL ENOUGH POOLED
MOISTURE AND LOW LVL E FLOW TO KEEP SCT AFTN/EVE TSTM MENTION.  FRI
MAY BEGIN A SUBTLE TRANSITION IN PCPN TIMING...WHICH LOOKS TO BECOME
MORE PRONOUNCED OVER THE WEEKEND...ESP OVER THE N CWFA...AS SFC LOW
PRES DEVELOPS OVER THE SE U.S. AND WINDS VEER TO THE SW ONCE AGAIN.

MARINE:  QUIET THROUGH THE PERIOD OUTSIDE OF ANY CONVECTION.

FIRE WX:  DITTO.

PRELIM NUMBERS:
TPA TT 075/092/073/091 2445
FMY TT 073/092/072/091 3455

TBW...NONE.

88/GOLDSMITH

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Highlands

When
June 17, 6:30 PM EST
Where
Highlands County, 5 mi NW of Lake Placid
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
27.350, -81.417

Dime sized hail was reported by a Skywarn Spotter in the Leisure Lakes subdivision five miles northwest of Lake Placid.

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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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: 5254849.