Hail, Levy
- When
- June 19, 2:30 PM EST
- Where
- Levy County, Otter Creek
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.317, -82.783
Dime sized hail was reported by the Chiefland police department in Otter Creek.
Hail in Florida, June 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 12:26 PM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 12:26 PM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 126 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001 CURRENTLY: GULF SEA BREEZE REMAINING PINNED NEAR THE COAST SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON...A SIGN THAT COASTAL COMMUNITIES SHOULD SEE THE BULK OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY. ALSO STARTING TO SEE A FEW SHOWERS FORMING ON THE GULF BREEZE TO THE NORTH OF TAMPA BAY. FORECAST: WITH A RELATIVE DIRTH OF 12Z MODEL DATA...WILL GENERALLY JUST CONTINUE THE CURRENT FORECAST THROUGH ANOTHER DAY. WHAT MODEL DATA WE DO HAVE CONTINUES TO SHOW A PREDOMINANT LOW LEVEL SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW THROUGH THE SHORT TERM WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO FUEL AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. MARINE: OVERALL WINDS AND SEAS REMAINING QUIET BUT AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PROVIDE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES. EXTENDED: LOOKS LIKE WE WILL HAVE A COUPLE OF DAYS OF SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS REVISIT OVER THE WEEKEND FROM TAMPA BAY NORTH IN RESPONSE TO UPPER TROF DIGGING INTO THE EAST. WE SHOULD GO BACK TO EASTERLY FLOW BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...HOWEVER...AS SURFACE RIDGE TO THE NORTH BRIDGES DOWN THE EAST COAST. STILL ENOUGH MOISTURE AROUND TO MAINTAIN SCATTERED CONVECTION THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED PERIOD. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA 92/72/92/72 5555 FMY 92/72/92/72 5555 .TBW...NONE. ALSHEIMER
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 167 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:27 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
- Heat in Illinois, June 19, 2001
- Flooding in Kansas, June 19 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Kansas, June 19, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 19 to 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 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: 5254928.