Hail, Dougherty
- When
- September 23, 3:52 PM EST
- Where
- Dougherty County, 5 mi NW of Albany
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 31.633, -84.233
Dime size hail reported by a SKYWARN spotter.
Hail in Georgia, September 23, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 23, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 300 PM EDT SUN SEP 23 2001 CURRENTLY...WITH LACK OF MORNING MARINE CONVECTION TO RETARD SEA BREEZE DEVELOPEMENT...COOLER AND DRIER CONDS AT MID LEVELS...HIGHER PWATS AND MORE UNSTABLE LI/K INDICES....THE SEA BREEZE BEGAN EARLIER TODAY...IS MORE ACTIVE AND HAS PENETRATED FURTHER INLAND THAN YESTERDAY. WITH CONTINUED NORTHWARD MOVEMENT...RELATED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION MAY BE STRONG ESPECIALLY WHERE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES COLLIDE...AND LINGER INTO LATE EVENING HOURS. EXPECTED TO FOCUS IN SRN GEORGIA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT SE ALA. DISCUSSION:LOOKS LIKE A WET MONDAY AND TUESDAY CONTRARY TO PREVIOUS GUIDANCE WHICH DRIED US OUT ON TUESDAY. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT MID-UPR PATTERN WILL CONT TO AMPLIFY INTO EARLY TOMMORROW ALLOWING DEEPENING UPR TROF TO CONT MOVING EASTWARD AND DEEPEN ACROSS CENTRAL TO ERN CONUS WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY COMING OUT OF TEXAS IN SRN STREAM. THIS WILL HELP DRAG ASSOCIATED FRONT AND PRE-FRONTAL TROUGHS (SQUALL LINES) TOWARDS LOCAL AREA. HOWEVER THEN MODELS DISAGREE WITH TIMING. AVN WHICH INITALIZED BEST AND IS FAVORED MODEL NOW HINTS THAT UPR FLOW MAY BE A BIT MORE ZONAL TOMORROW ESPECIALLY AFTER UPPER LOW CLOSES OFF OVER OHIO VALLEY. THIS WILL SLOW DOWN SEWD PROGRESSION OF BOUNDARY ESPECIALLY SO AS IT MOVES ACROSS SE HALF OF LOCAL AREA. THIS MAY FOCUS MAIN CONVECTION MORE TOWARDS LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO NIGHT HOURS AND MAY RESULT IN SHARPER PRECIP GRADIENT THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. STILL... INCREASINGLY MOIST SLY FLOW OFF GULF SHOULD INSURE THAT FLA PRECIP STARTS EARLY TOMORROW. LIKEWISE AVN SLOWS DOWN BOUNDARY OVER COASTAL WATERS ON TUESDAY AND DEVELOPS A WAVE. THIS SHOULD KEEP MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND SCT POPS ON TUESDAY INTO TUES EVENING...ESPECIALLY OVER FLORIDA. AS FRONT WEAKENS AND MOVES FURTHER SOUTH BEGINNING WEDNESDAY...RAPID IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER. FORECAST:WILL BREAK UP ZFP INTO SIX ZONES WITH GEORGIA DIVIDED INTO NW/SE AND SE BIG BEND SEPARATED FROM REST OF BIG BEND TO ACCOUNT FOR TIMING OF FRONT. SCT POPS TONIGHT AND LIKELY POPS TOMORORW ALL BUT SE BIG BEND. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCT POPS TUES INTO TUES EVENING... ESPECIALLY ACROSS SE HALF OF LOCAL AREA. SE WINDS VEER TO SW/W AHEAD OF FRONT AND NW/N/NE BEHIND. MARINE:CURRENT BUOYS SHOW WINDS AOB 10 KNOTS AND SEAS AOB 2 FEET. WILL KEEP ONE ZONE FITS ALL WITH FRONT ALTHO CAN EXPECT ACTIVE PRECIP TO BEGIN AND END WRN WATERS EARLIER THAN APALACH BAY. FIRE WX:NO CONCERNS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: TLH 070 084 064 077 4653 PFN 074 082 065 079 4643 DHN 070 080 061 075 5731 ABY 070 082 060 072 4731 VLD 070 086 064 077 4642 .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. BLOCK
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
- Wildfire in California, September 23 to 25, 2001
- Hail in Texas, September 23, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arkansas, September 23, 2001
- Hail in Kentucky, September 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, September 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, September 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, September 23, 2001
- Heat in California, September 23, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, September 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, September 23, 2001
- Strong Wind in Michigan, September 23 to 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, September 23, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, September 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: 5267675.