Name: Hail in Georgia, June 6, 2001
Start: 2001-06-06T17:00
End: 2001-06-06T17:10
Location: Georgia

Where it happened

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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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
245 PM EDT WED JUN 06 2001

CURRENTLY...RADAR LOOP SHOWS CONVECTION FIRING MOSTLY OVER THE FL
PORTION OF CWA...AND ALONG SEA BREEZE FRONTS. AFTN TEMPS IN THE
LOWER 90S HELPING TO SET OFF CONVECTION OVER MARION AND PUTNAM COS
ATTM...WITH OTHER WDLY SCT CELLS OVER OKEFENOKEE AND NRN ZONES.
RIDGE AXIS WAS LOCATED OVER N CENTRAL FL ATTM WITH REMNANTS OF
ALLISON OVER ERN TX WITH DEEP LAYER MOISTURE OVER LA AND SRN MS.

FORECAST...WILL KEEP A GOOD CHANCE OF POPS GOING FOR MOST OF THE FA
TONIGHT AS CONVECTION SLOW TO COME TO AN END. THINK BEST CHANCES
WILL AGAIN BE IN THE FL ZONES DUE TO SEA BREEZE COLLISIONS AND
OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES SO WILL LEAN TOWARD LITTLE HIGHER POPS THERE. MODELS
IN REASONABLY GOOD AGREEMENT INDICATING MEAN RIDGE AXIS TO SHIFT SWD
THRU FRI WITH WINDS BECOMING SW TO W BELOW 500 MB. MODELS SIMILARLY
MAINTAIN HIGH DEEP LAYER MOISTURE OVER THE AREA...BUT TIMING
DIFFERENCES NOTED WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY OVER TOP OF RIDGE OVER SE
U.S. FRONTAL BOUNDARY LOOKS LIKE IT WILL STALL OVER CENTRAL GA AREA
FRI NIGHT WITH FRONTAL WAVE OVER NRN GA BASED ON COMPROMISE BTN AVN
AND ETA. WILL BE GOING ABOVE NGM POPS AGAIN...CLOSER TO MAV GUIDANCE.
IN ADDITION...MAV TEMPS LOOK A LITTLE MORE CLOSE TO REALITY.

MARINE...WINDS S TO SE AROUND 15 KT PER COASTAL OBS. SAUF1 RECENT
CAME UP TO 17 KT. WINDS SLOWLY SHIFT AROUND TO SW LATE TONIGHT AND
THU MORNING. BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS FROM WSW WILL INHIBIT SEA BREEZE
PROGRESSION INLAND THU AND LIKELY FRI SO WILL MAINTAIN MOSTLY S TO
SW WINDS AOB 15 KT. WILL THROW OUT NGM SOLUTION FRI FOR NW WINDS AND
USE ETA/AVN BLEND FRI.

EXTDD...FRONT STALLED OVER SRN GA SAT INTO EARLY MON WILL KEEP FA IN
MOIST THREAT OF AFTN CONVECTION SO WILL BEEF UP MENTION OF POPS FOR
WEEKEND. WILL ALSO MENTION ISOL TO WIDELY SCT POPS EARLY PART OF
WORK WEEK.

PRELIM
AMG 70/90/71/86 5657
SSI 74/86/73/84 4657
JAX 72/90/71/87 5757
GNV 70/90/71/88 5757 02

.JAX...
.FL...NONE.
.GA...NONE.

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Camden

When: June 6, 5:00 PM EST
Where: Camden County, White Oak
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 31.033, -81.717

Funnel Cloud, Camden

When: June 6, 5:10 PM EST
Where: Camden County, 2 mi N of Kingsland
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.923, -81.636 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Funnel Cloud: A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5255321, 5255322.