Hail, Lake
- When
- May 31, 6:16 PM EST
- Where
- Lake County, 2 mi N of Umatilla
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 28.950, -81.650
Hail in Florida, May 31, 2001
2 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
- 2
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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 31, 1:40 PM EST, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 1:40 PM EST, 4 hours 36 minutes before
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 240 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2001 CURRENTLY...FEW SHOWERS NORTH OF CWA IN POOL OF HIGHER MOISTURE AIR NR OLD WASHED OUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY. CONVECTION FORMING ALONG WEST COAST SEA BREEZE IN HIGHER MOISTURE AIR SOUTH OF SARASOTA. EAST COAST SEA BREEZE PUSHING INLAND SOUTH OF THE CAPE WITH ONLY CONVECTION JUST NW OF PBI. DRY POCKET OF AIR HANGING ON OVER CWA FOR NOW...BUT WILL HAVE TO WATCH TRENDS FOR POSSIBLE EVENING POPS. NEXT 48H...SFC AND UPR LVL RIDGES WILL BE DISPLACED SLIGHTLY SOUTH AND EAST AS AN UPR LVL TROF DEEPENS OVER THE ERN US. AN ASSC SFC LOW WILL TRAVERSE THE GREAT LAKES...WITH A TRAILING WEAK FRONT/TROF WASHING OUT SOMEWHERE OVER NRN FL FRI NIGHT. THIS WILL PLACE THE CWA IN A LIGHT S TO SW FLOW AT THE SFC WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW AT UPPER LVLS. MOISTURE POISED OVER THE ERN GOMEX WILL STREAM NE AHEAD OF S/W'S IN THE BASE OF THE UPR TROF ON FRI. NGM IS THE LEAST AGGRESSIVE WITH THE MOISTURE...AS YOU WOULD EXPECT...BUT EVEN IT SHOWS A SMALL AREA OF PWATS TO 2 INCHES BY FRI EVENING (00Z SAT). ACTION WILL START AS SCT SEA BREEZE CONVECTION FRI AFTERNOON (WITH WEST COAST SEA BREEZE BEING MOST ACTIVE AND DOMINANT IN SW FLOW)...HOWEVER EXPECT ACTIVITY TO LAST WELL INTO THE NIGHT AS H5 S/W ENERGY AND A JET STREAK NOSE INTO CEN FL IN THE EARLY EVENING. SAT WILL BE TRICKY AS AVN HOLDS ON TO VERY HIGH MOISTURE VALUES AS NGM AND ETA ATTEMPT TO DRY OUT FROM THE NW MORE RAPIDLY. IT APPEARS SCT TSTMS ARE IN ORDER AGAIN SAT... BUT EXACT TS COVERAGE IS IN QUESTION. EXTENDED...00Z MRF GUIDANCE KEPT CEN FL IN MOIST AIRMASS AND GENERAL SW FLOW TUE-THU. LATEST AVN RUN SHOWS THE UPR RIDGE AXIS DEVELOPING NORTH OF THE CWA MON/TUE...WITH THE SFC RIDGE AXIS NEAR THE CAPE. THIS WILL PLACE CWA IN MORE OF AN EASTERLY FLOW AT H85 AND H70...WITH VERY LIGHT SFC WIND. AVAILABLE MOISTURE WOULD ALSO APPEAR TO BE LESS...HOWEVER MODELS HAVE BASICALLY BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR EARLY AND MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK...AND CAN NOT JUSTIFY ANY CHANGES TO PREVIOUS PKG ATTM. MARINE...NO FLAGS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT...ALTHOUGH SW WINDS WILL INCREASE TO NEAR 15 KTS SAT IN RESPONSE TO INCREASED GRADIENT CAUSED BY SFC LOW TO THE NORTH AND HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE ATL. MAIN FOCUS ON FORECAST WILL BE POPS FRI AND OVER WEEKEND. PRELIM CCF... DAB TT 069/088 070/088 070 881555 MCO= TT 069/090 070/090 071 882555 MLB TT 072/088 073/088 072 88-555 .MLB...NONE. PUBLIC/MARINE...GITTINGER AVIATION/FIRE WEATHER...LASCODY
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:15 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Osceola
- When
- May 31, 6:43 PM EST
- Where
- Osceola County, 2 mi N of Narcoosee
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 28.333, -81.233
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
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 31, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, May 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 31, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, May 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: 5245027, 5245028.