Hail, Marion
- When
- June 21, 5:50 PM EST
- Where
- Marion County, Ocala
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 29.183, -82.133
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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 12:45 PM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 12:45 PM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 145 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 CURRENT...WEAK SFC RIDGE OVER THE AREA. 2 RATHER VIGOROUS...BUT SMALL...SHORT WAVES AFFECTING THE GA CWA WITH SCATTERED STRONG TSTM. W COAST SEABREEZE ACTIVITY ALSO GOT AN EARLY START. EVIDENCE OF AN E COAST SEABREEZE JUST SHOWING UP AT SAUF1 AND KSGJ...ALTHO MOST E COAST SITES STILL REPORTING A LIGHT W WIND. MODELS...MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW TROF AXIS APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE W DURING THE FCST PD. THIS WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE DYNAMICS... ESPECIALLY OVER NW PORTION OF AREA ON SAT. THIS WILL ALSO TAP INTO MORE ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE. PUBLIC...SCATTERED CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE IN GA WITH SHORT WAVES...ALTHO MESO-ETA SHOWS THEM DAMPENING OUT THIS EVENING. CONVECTIVE PATTERN IN FL WILL BE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY EVENING...WITH ACTIVITY FOCUSING OVER INTERIOR AREAS. HOWEVER...WITH A LITTLE MORE WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT...STORMS WILL AGAIN APPROACH ATLC COASTAL COUNTIES BEFORE WEAKENING. GRADUAL INCREASE IN POPS INDICATED BY PREVIOUS FCSTR LOOKS ON TRACK...AND MAV GUIDANCE SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST NUMBERS IN MOST LOCALES. TEMPS NEAR CLIMO...WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER HIGHS ON SAT DUE TO EARLIER CONVECTION INITIATION AND POSSIBLY MORE CLOUD COVER. EXTENDED...APPROACHING SFC FRONT STALLS OVER NW GA CWA...THEN DISSIPATES BY MON...SO CONTINUE WITH CURRENT EXTENDED TREND OVER MOST ZONES. MARINE...WILL INCREASE SAT WINDS SLIGHTLY OVER PRESENT PACKAGE AHEAD OF FRONTAL SYSTEM. OTHERWISE...LITTLE CHANGE. PRELIM AMG 69/89/70/86 3536 SSI 72/88/72/86 3546 JAX 71/91/71/89 3546 GNV 70/90/70/87 4536 .JAX... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...CARROLL AVIATION/FIRE...SCOTT
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:47 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: 5255814.