Florida, 2001

Hail in Florida, June 21, 2001

June 21, 2001 · NWS TBW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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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 21, 8:47 AM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 8:47 AM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
947 AM EDT THU JUN 21 2001

12Z SOUNDING A TOUCH MORE UNSTABLE THIS MORNING...BUT NOT
SIGNIFICANT. WINDS BETWEEN 1K AND 3K FEET HAVE VEERED MORE TO THE
SOUTH THIS MORNING...BUT GENERAL DIRECTION IN THE LOWEST 10K FEET
REMAINS LIGHT SOUTHEAST FOR ANOTHER DAY. BY AFTERNOON...EXPECT A
TRANSITION TO A MORE SOUTHERLY FLOW AS THE SURFACE RIDGE CONTINUES
TO SLOWLY SLIP SOUTH IN RESPONSE TO DIGGING UPPER TROF. CEDAR KEY
ALREADY HAS A SOUTHWEST WIND AT 9 AM...A SIGN OF THE CHANGES TO
COME. NO REASON TO CHANGE ONGOING FORECAST AT THIS TIME.

.TBW...NONE.

ALSHEIMER

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:08 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pinellas

When
June 21, 12:10 PM EST to 12:20 PM EST
Where
Pinellas County, Pinellas Park
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates
27.833, -82.717

The public reported, through Bay News 9 Cable, golfball to dime sized hail, from near the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and 49th Street in Pinellas Park to the intersection of Interstate 275 and State Road 694 (Gandy Blvd) in St. Petersburg.

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: 5255004.