Hail, Polk
- When
- March 31, 3:19 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County, 1 mi W of Lakeland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 28.033, -81.967
Dime sized hail was reported by a Skywarn Spotter one mile west of Lakeland.
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, 3:15 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 3:15 PM EST, 4 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
315 PM EST SAT MAR 31 2001
WILL CANCEL FLOOD WATCH WITH THIS PACKAGE. WE ARE GETTING LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT NOT WIDESPREAD
ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY THE CONTINUATION OF THE FLOOD WATCH.
SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE PROBLEM THIS EVENING...BUT FAIR WEATHER
SUNDAY AND BEYOND AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AT ALL LEVELS FOR THE
WEEK.
MARINE: WILL LET CURRENT FORECAST RIDE AS LITTLE TIME TO LOOK AT
ANYTHING. SCEC CRITERIA MAY BE MET SUNDAY...AS PER CURRENT FORECAST.
PRELIM NUMBERS:
TPA 62/76/52/76 1000
FMY 66/81/55/80 4000
.TBW...FIRE WX WATCH SUNDAY FLZ039-042>043-052-056>057-061...AND
INTERIOR FLZ048>049.
ALSHEIMERThe radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:20 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: 5238494.