Hail, Broward
- When
- March 19, 1:40 PM EST
- Where
- Broward County, Pompano Beach
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 26.233, -80.117
A SKYWARN spotter reported dime-size hail.
Hail in Florida, March 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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 9:35 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 9:35 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 935 AM EST MON MAR 19 2001 LOCAL ANALYSIS SHOWS WARM FRONT FROM NEAR PBI TO JUST NORTH OF APF.DEWPOINTS TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT ARE IN THE 70S WITH READINGS TO THE NORTH IN THE 60S. RADAR AND SATELLITE ARE SHOWING THAT THE BRUNT OF THE PRECIPITATION IS CURRENTLY FROM PALM BEACH COUNTY WESTWARD TO LEE COUNTY SO THIS LOOKS LIKE ARE LOCATION FOR THE FRONT. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE GREATEST ALONG THE WARM FRONT WHERE THE SHRAR AND INSTABILITY WILL BE THE GREATEST. THUS...IF AND WHEN SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON THEY PROBABLY WILL INCLUDE OUR NORTHERN ZONES. WITH SURFACE LOW DEVELOPING IN THE GULF AND MOVING OVER NORTH FLORIDA...THIS SHOULD ALSO RESULT IN COPIUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN FOR THE ENTIRE STATE INCLUDING SOUTH FLORIDA. CURRENTLY PRECIP WATER IS MORE THAN 1.60 INCHES OVER THE AREA WITH VALUES STAYING ABOVE 1.50 INCHES UNTIL TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS PLUS HIGH VERT VELOCITIES DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS MEANS THAT PRECIP IS ALMOST CERTAIN. NO FIRE WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS. MIA TN 081/069 079/056 073 1577710 PBI TN 080/068 077/054 072 15786-0= .MIA...wSMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES FOR THE GULF STREAM WATERS TODAY.
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:42 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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, March 19, 2001
- Winter Storm in Georgia, March 19 to 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 19, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, March 19, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, March 19, 2001
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, March 19, 2001
- Hail in Florida, March 19, 2001
- Hail in Florida, March 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, March 19, 2001
- High Wind in Montana, March 19, 2001
- Flood in Nebraska, March 19 to 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, March 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: 5233745.