Hail, Highlands
- When
- March 30, 4:11 AM EST
- Where
- Highlands County, 1 mi E of Sebring
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 27.500, -81.433
Nickel sized hail was reported by a Skywarn Spotter one mile east of Sebring.
Hail in Florida, March 30, 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 Mar 30, 3:18 AM EST, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:18 AM EST, 53 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 318 AM EST FRI MAR 30 2001 BUSY NIGHT CONTINUING ACROSS THE CWFA...BUT THE BIG STORY IS MUCH NEEDED RAIN (THOUGH A BIT TOO MUCH TOO QUICKLY) HAS FALLEN IN AREAS THAT NEEDED IT MOST. A PNS WILL BE SENT TOWARDS DAWN WITH SEVERAL LOCATIONS NUMBERS. WILL KEEP DISC BRIEF SINCE ACTIVITY CONTINUES ACROSS THE CENTRAL ZONES. H50 SHORT WAVE AND JET IMPULSE WHICH KICKED OFF ROUND 2 ARE RACING THROUGH ATTM...AND BACK EDGE OF PCPN ALREADY MAKING ITS MOVE ON THE COAST. SKIES ACTUALLY BECOME PTLY CLDY BEHIND THE ACTIVITY...AND EXPECT SOME SUNSHINE LATER TODAY...ESP CENTRAL AND N. UNFORTUNATELY...SW FLOW ALFT COMBINED WITH SFC S/SE FLOW AND ABUNDANT RH COURTESY OF 18H RAINS SHOULD BE ENUF TO BUBBLE UP AMS FOR AFTN PCPN TODAY. TONIGHT...ETA AND AVN DISAGREE A BIT ON MOISTURE...WITH ETA STILL CARRYING HIGH VALUES AND AVN RELATIVELY DRY. CONTINUED SW FLOW WITH MORE SHORT WAVES RUNNING THROUGH IT ARGUES FOR A BIT MORE CLOUDS AND PCPN PROBS THAN AVN...SO WILL RETAIN A LOW CHC CNTL/S. FARTHER N...SLIGHT COOLING BUT WITH STILL HIGH DWPTS COULD LEAD TO FOG...SO WILL ADD PATCHY WORDING. ON SAT...BOTH ETA AND AVN SHOW PREFRONTAL MEAN RH ENHANCEMENT...AND ANOTHER ROUND OF DECENT H25 JET DVRGC ONCE AGAIN. APPEARS THAT JACKPOT WILL BE CENTRAL AND S AGAIN...AND WILL LEAVE HIGHEST POPS ACCORDINGLY. BY SAT NIGHT...THE N SHOULD BEGIN TO DRY OUT...WITH AGAIN SOME PATCHY FOG. FARTHER S...SLOW MOVEMENT OF FRONT MAY CONTINUE THREAT OF PCPN. EXTENDED: IF YOU BELIEVE THE AVN...APRIL ARRIVES ON SKED...CLIMATOLOGICALLY AT LEAST...BY MONDAY. DEEPENING E U.S. TROUGH WILL PUNCH DRY COOLER AIR INTO THE REGION...BUT MODIFICATION WILL OCCUR QUICKLY AS H50 RIDGE...AT LONG LAST...BUILDS. A WARM DRY TREND IS IN STORE BY MID WEEK. MARINE: WINDS ON THE WANE...AS ARE SEAS. EXPECT A BUMP BACK TO 15 KT TODAY...THEN A DECREASE THRU SAT NIGHT AS TROUGH SLOWLY MOVES THROUGH. PERHAPS A BRIEF SURGE BACK TO 15 KT AS CAA MOVES IN SUN NIGHT...THEN A RETURN TO E WINDS/ONSHORE SEA BREEZES LATER. FIRE WX: PLENTY OF SURFACE WETNESS AND CONTINUED HIGH RH MEAN NO FLAGS FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS. PRELIM NUMBERS: TPA ET 078/064/078/065 4252 FMY WT 081/066/082/066 6454 88 .TBW...NONE. GOLDSMITH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Massachusetts, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, March 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 30, 2001
- Dense Fog in Minnesota, March 30, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 30, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, March 30 to 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 30 to 31, 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: 5238497.