Hail, Pinellas
- When
- March 31, 2:05 PM EST to 2:08 PM EST
- Where
- Pinellas County, Largo
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 27.917, -82.800
Golfball to dime sized hail was reported by Skywarn Spotters in Largo.
Hail in Florida, March 31, 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 31, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1230 PM EST SAT MAR 31 2001
UPDATE: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF THE AREA. AMENDED ZONES TO REFLECT THIS. WILL LEAVE IT OUT
OF THE MARINE FORECAST AS BIGGEST THREAT IS INLAND FROM THE COAST.
.TBW...FLOOD WATCH TODAY FLZ050>052-055>057-060>061-062.
...FIRE WX WATCH SUNDAY FLZ039-042>043-052-056>057-061...AND
INTERIOR FLZ048>049.
ALSHEIMERThe radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:05 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
- Hail in Mississippi, March 31, 2001
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, March 31, 2001
- Dense Fog in Illinois, March 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, March 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, March 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 31, 2001
- Dense Fog in Indiana, March 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 31, 2001
- Flood in New York, March 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, March 31, 2001
- Drought in California, March 31, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 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: 5238491.