Hail, Hillsborough
- When
- June 21, 6:15 PM EST
- Where
- Hillsborough County, Riverview
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 27.867, -82.333
Dime sized hail was reported by WFTS-TV (ABC) of Tampa in Riverview, Florida.
Hail in Florida, June 21, 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 21, 1:13 PM EST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 1:13 PM EST, 5 hours 2 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 213 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 CURRENTLY: ALREADY HAD A STORM WITH GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL THIS AFTERNOON OVER PINELLAS COUNTY. THIS USUALLY MEANS WE WILL SEE ANOTHER SEVERE STORM OR TWO BEFORE THE DAY IS OVER. BEST CHANCE WOULD SEEM TO BE OVER THE INTERIOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES WHERE GULF BREEZE AND ATLANTIC BREEZE COMBINE. INSTABILITY IS OBVIOUSLY IN PLACE. FORECAST: 12Z MODELS ALL SHOW REASONABLY SIMILAR EVOLUTIONS TO THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN THROUGH THE WEEKEND. DEEP UPPER TROF OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO AMPLIFY...PARKING ITSELF AS A FULL LATITUDE TROF EXTENDING FROM EASTERN CANADA INTO THE GULF BY SATURDAY. THE MAIN SURFACE RIDGE WILL RETREAT TO THE SOUTH OF THE CWA IN RESPONSE...SETTING UP DEEP SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW LOADED WITH TROPICAL MOISTURE. MAIN QUESTION I AM LEFT WITH IS THE SOURCE AND LOCATION OF MAXIMUM LIFT. DIURNAL CONSIDERATIONS WOULD ARGUE FOR MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON ACTIVITY IN COASTAL LOCATIONS WITH THE CONVECTION MOVING INLAND DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. HOWEVER...STRONG VORT MAX MAY SUPPLY ENOUGH SYNOPTIC LIFT TO KEEP THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES ALL DAY. WILL STAY AWAY FROM SPECIFIC TIMING IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES FOR THESE REASONS. CHANCES OF RAIN ARE ALSO A BIT OF A QUESTION. THEY SHOULD BE GOOD... BUT HOW GOOD. THERE IS A WEAK SURFACE TROF EVIDENT IN THE SURFACE WIND FIELDS OVER APALACHEE BAY THIS AFTERNOON...AND LEADING VORT MAX LIFTING NORTHEAST WILL HELP TO SUPPRESS THE TROF A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE SOUTH. THE EVENTUAL RESTING PLACE OF THAT BOUNDARY WILL BE THE LOCATION OF THE BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AT THAT. WITH THOSE DETAILS HARD TO DISCERN AT THIS TIME...I WILL BROADBRUSH THE FORECAST AND GO WITH SCATTERED ON FRIDAY AND NUMEROUS ON SATURDAY AS THE MAIN TROF APPROACHES. HOPEFULLY FUTURE MODEL RUNS WILL ALLOW FOR MORE DETAIL IN THE ZONES. MARINE: STILL NO HEADLINES EXPECTED WITH WINDS BECOMING SOUTHWEST EVERYWHERE FOR THE WEEKEND. EXTENDED: FLOW SHOULD TRANSITION BACK AGAIN TO A SOUTHEASTMERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK...GIVING LATE DAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BACK TO THE COASTAL COUNTIES. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA 74/90/77/89 3546 FMY 73/92/75/91 4536 .TBW...NONE. ALSHEIMER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 1:23 PM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
223 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0114 PM PINELLAS PARK FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 PINELLAS REPORTED BY BAY NEWS 9.
EVENT DURATION 15
MINUTES.
0114 PM PINELLAS PARK FL 1 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 PINELLAS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0116 PM PINELLAS PARK FL LIGHTNING
06/21/01 PINELLAS A 32 YEAR OLD FEMALE
WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
WHILE GRABBING A METAL
CLOSET DOOR KNOB INSIDE
HER HOME. SHE IS
CURRENTLY IN GOOD
CONDITION. REPORTED BY
BAY NEWS 9.
0120 PM PINELLAS PARK FL WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01 PINELLAS TREES WERE DOWNED ON
66TH AND 118TH ST IN
PINELLAS PARK. REPORTED
BY BAY NuEWS 9.
0125 PM PINELLAS PARK FL FUNNEL CLOUD
06/21/01 PINELLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:05 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
605 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001
...CORRECTED FOR DATE OF MANATEE REPORT...
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM BRADENTON FL WIND DAMAGE
06/20/01 MANATEE A LARGE TREE WAS BLOWN
DOWN AT THE
INTERSECTION OF 51ST
AVE AND 20TH ST E. .
REPORTED BY BAY NEWS 9.
0307 PM INVERNESS FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 CITRUS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
EVENT DURATION 3 MINUTES.
0307 PM FORT LONESOME FL WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01 HILLSBOROUGH TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN
AT THE INTERSECTION OF
STATE ROAD 39 AND N
674. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0330 PM FT LONESOME FL 1 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 HILLSBOROUGH REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0441 PM BARTOW FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 POLK REPORTED BY FOX 13.
0448 PM DADE CITY FL WIND DAMAGE
06/21/01 PASCO POWER LINES WERE BLOWN
DOWN. REPORTED BY LOCAL
UTILITY COMPANY.
0539 PM WESLEY CHAPEL FL .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 PASCO REPORTED BY FOX 13.The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:16 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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 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: 5255014.